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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
A bright Sunday morning, and relatively quiet. Although the canal goes through Warwick, it skirts round the centre so shielding you from most of the city. So you’ve cast off and steering on a pleasant morning watching the world go by and enjoying a coffee. A couple of locks appear accompanied by a pub, The [...]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
For our May 2008 canal cruise we planned on going from Calcutt to Tewkesbury by going down the River Avon and back up the Severn. Day 0 we arrived late at the boat and decided to just pop up to The Boat Inn at Stockton. I had set up the time lapse camera yesterday, but [...]
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
You can, if it lets you, get carried away producing or improving any video project you are working on - usually there’s a deadline by which you need to finish them. Not so with my video’s, so I could take forever re-tinkering with them, however I’ve tried not to. Producing these time lapse video’s has [...]
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
GU Canal D11 Lock, Sink, and Tunnel to Braunston
Day eleven of my September 2007 cruise down the GUC sees us almost back to base. As a side note I finished this video in early April, but no idea why I forgot to actually put up an entry for it here?
It was a sunny but [...]
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Hello from afloat. We started out on 2nd and headed up through Warwick, in the rain, down the Stratford and on to the Avon.
Luckily the rain stopped after a couple of days giving us 10 days of glorious sunshine. My camera has been taking pictures, but we’ve been delayed a couple of days with engine [...]
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