All I can remember of my time on a narrow boat brings a grimace.
A group of ten of us rented one for the time we were due to get our A level exam results.
On the day they arrived we had a great party at a pub near a lock.
We phoned home from the landline in the pub (as this is a long time ago and mobiles had not yet been invented)
We all passed to some degree and the party went on into the night.
The following morning(ish) I got up with a hang over and decided a shower would help, it was small. The bathroom was tiny.
I dropped the soap and so faced the curtain so I could bend to collect it off the floor.
At this point the boat moved and I came into close personal contact with the hot water pipe coming up from the floor.
I shot forwards out of the shower and placed my face somewhere I wish I had not.
Never went back on one again!
What a shame that wasn’t captured for posterity. Sounds hilarious
