Vlog 101: Straight Cut
An episode in which I spot an escaped cow, a swan hinders my progress and I send a hireboater to their doom.
Continue readingStories about boats and waterways
An episode in which I spot an escaped cow, a swan hinders my progress and I send a hireboater to their doom.
Continue readingThis is NOT A VLOG. It’s a compilation of pretty canal scenes with no captions, text, commentary, music, annotations or anything like that. It’s deliberately like that. If you liked my previous “not a vlogs”, I hope you like this one. If you didn’t, you definitely won’t. If you think it would be better with music, then please feel free to put your favourite CD on while you watch :-)
Continue readingIn which I continue my return trip to Middlewich but then do a 90 degree right turn onto the Middlewich branch of the Shropshire Union canal, get some fuel and fenders from a fuelboat, go all the way along to Barbridge and turn left onto the Shroppie, and past the entrance to the Llangollen canal.
Continue readingSeveral people suggested that as I was going all the way up to Middlewich I ought to go that little bit further north and visit the Anderton Boat Lift, an amazing engineering structure dating from 1875, which lifts boats from the Trent and Mersey canal down to the River Weaver and vice versa. So I did.
Continue readingTaking the narrowboat up to and through Middlewich and out the other side.
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