Getting our feet wet

When we decided we would go back to Europe and the UK in 2014 we booked a week on a narrow boat cruising the English canal network. By the way, a week cruising on a narrow boat doesn't mean covering vast distances, overall I estimate that we covered around thirty miles for the week or about thirty minutes in a car!

We hired 'Peeress' from Maestermyn Cruisers, a 45' cruiser stern narrow boat, we thought would do the job. I must admit it wasn't as comfortable as described on the company website but it got us around to where we wanted to go. We cruised part of the Llangollen and all of the Montgomery canals, the Llangollen is a World Heritage Site and had some outstanding points of interest, least of all the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.

Our cruise has just finished and now we are down to the real business of looking for a boat to buy.

I have included a few photos from our cruising week.