Narrowboat

I was watching a program and it had a piece on Adamant a steam boat on the UK canals. The program was from2003, but here’s the piece in particular.
Taken from Waterways World.

I seem to be getting an increasing number of spam comments – luckily I have it set to review comments before publishing so I can stop them from going live. I do have a couple of plugin-filters which stop the type with random words and links, but now there seem to be a few of [...]

I’ve just been over to France on a cheap flight to see family, but found myself with a couple of hours spare in Carcassonne. The Canal du Midi passed close to the railway station with a lock nearby. Fascinating to watch the boats traverse this as it has a lock keeper and automated lock gates. [...]

Okay, not exactly canal related, but BBC News yesterday reported about a tanker being Hijacked off the coast of Somalia.
Pirates have seized two European-owned tankers off the coast of Somalia in the past day, officials have said. The Greek-owned vessel Nipayia, with 19 crew on board, was seized on Wednesday … The Norwegian-owned tanker Bow [...]

Its been a while since I stopped at Fenny Compton – usually end up carrying on past. We stopped this time on our way back and decided to dine out at the Wharf Inn. The food and the service was excelent – one of our party had some specific dietry requirements and they went out [...]