You have been listening to she has been hinting for several years and handed me a wadge of cash a few weeks ago . Looks like my holiday in the garage AGAIN is not what she wants.
I've been watching Pru and Tim on telly and I really fancy a canal trip, too. Nearest I've got to it is a week on the Broads and that was great. You really see a different side of the landscape.
We live in Australia but keep a 27' Sea Otter narrowboat at Pyrford Marina on the River Wey, Surrey. To the non narrowboaters this is made of aluminium with a flooding keel. Each year we visit the UK we have it trailed to some part of the system, and meander our way home....Last year Coventry to Oxford to London by canal and river. Have done Mon and Brec, Llangollen, Kennet and Avon, etc. All very agreeable, as will be my M3W when I get it ! Even with an Aussie mo ! Best hire trip Mon and Brec for non boaters, great scenery and because it's not connected to other canals not too busy. 4/5 hire companies keep prices reasonable, but it's in Wales so it will be wet ! Cheers Mark
Last year a few of us from Taffmog went to the Hatton Locks. Lunch at the Hatton Arms overlooking them at approx half way through. Excellent pub for a meal..... Awesome to see all those locks from the canal trust carpark just below the pub. I will try and dig out some photos. A Taffmogger has a narrowboat and says he avoids the area due to the time needed to get through all 21! He has an Aero8 so at the opposite end of the speed scale!
Oops....add on info... Last year on the way to Morgans at Windermere we stopped in the Mill Hotel in Chester on the way up and back. It straddles the canal and they have a restaurant boat that does a run up and down while you eat on board. Very nice meal and a nice evening. 5 mins walk from the city centre too.
We live in Australia but keep a 27' Sea Otter narrowboat at Pyrford Marina on the River Wey, Surrey. To the non narrowboaters this is made of aluminium with a flooding keel. Each year we visit the UK we have it trailed to some part of the system, and meander our way home....Last year Coventry to Oxford to London by canal and river. Have done Mon and Brec, Llangollen, Kennet and Avon, etc. All very agreeable, as will be my M3W when I get it ! Even with an Aussie mo ! Best hire trip Mon and Brec for non boaters, great scenery and because it's not connected to other canals not too busy. 4/5 hire companies keep prices reasonable, but it's in Wales so it will be wet ! Cheers Mark
A dry canal is not much fun.
.+8 Now gone for a 1800 4/4. Duratec in bright yellow.
she has been hinting for several years and handed me a wadge of cash a few weeks ago . Looks like my holiday in the garage AGAIN is not what she wants. 
You know it makes sense! 
