Narrowboat

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 [...]

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 [...]

Going out for a week – aiming to tackle the South Oxford.

Ooo eck, looks like I’ve been a bit quiet for a while. Had a busy few months. I went to Andorra for a week and captured some stuff for time lapsing – though the Customs on the border made me delete frames taken inside the border station! Ah that was when I was leaving the [...]

I really should have posted this before I went! I do try and get a non boating holiday each year – just to see the other side. This time I went to the Spain, specifically Madrid. That’s right Madrid in August when many locals leave the city to escape the heat! Fourteen days of potentially [...]