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Harnser's Travels

Acton Bridge - Boy did it rain last night, about 8mm in a series of very heavy showers. We heard a noise about 7 AM an looking out saw a bunch of canoes, no idea where ...
13 hours ago
JAMEISONS AFLOAT

Blenheim Palace - June 4th Sunshine and showers were forecast for today, waterproofs at the ready then. Arriving at the Palace by 10.30, we were amazed to have to queue t...
3 days ago
Life Afloat On Narrowboat Tickety Boo

Loving Life. - I have been living back onboard for a year now! I can't believe how fast that has flown by. Lots of changes but good ones. First big change was finall...
5 weeks ago
HERBIE!

Banbury cut in half - plus Herbie sea trails - Banbury cut in half? What's he on about? Is it just click bait? Well I'll explain that at the end. Meanwhile for the first time in many months Herbie h...
2 months ago
Narrowboat Briar Rose

Some final stats - After a long cruise I normally do a post with some stats for the trip, so I thought it would be nice to do some stats for the whole of our ownership of B...
6 months ago
Captain Ahab's Watery Tales

New Main Line, heading out of Birmingham - *New Main Line from Birmingham to Smethwick 1963* November 2025 Its a bit tricky to define the area heading out of Birmingham towards Smethwick and Tipt...
6 months ago
Hadar

Our Last Journey on Hadar - Back in April 2025 Jo and I started to look at flats in the Warwick area with a view to moving back onto the land at some point in time as we didn't wan...
11 months ago
WB Pippin

Five Years Later...... - How astonishing. I was only thinking this morning that I really should have a look at the old WB Pippin blog, just to see if I can access it at all. T...
11 months ago
Aardvarks & Maffi's Boat

Climate change, climate bullshit - Open sidebar [image: The Epoch Times] Open si Trillions Spent on ‘Climate Change’ Based on Faulty Temperature Data, Climate Experts Say 7875 1403 [image:...
2 years ago
Seyella's Journey

- An interesting 6 months... Well, it's been a while since I last put electronic pen to paper, and a lot has happened. I last posted as we arrived at Pill...
3 years ago
Halfie

Meeting friends on the cut; nearly losing an Elsan cassette - Oh dear - no blogging for three days. Various reasons, mostly that it got too late in the evening and I was too tired. Now we are on a lock-free stretch an...
4 years ago
contentedsouls

ContentedSouls Returns!!!! - On Monday I decided it was time to re-start the blog whilst the IT department was out of the way on a boy’s day out (please don`t ask me what a boy´s day o...
4 years ago
Derwent6

Back to our Lockdown Base - We were up early as we had been to bed early the night before and Del showered and went to pull the boat back onto the water point so we were full to th...
5 years ago
Retirement with No Problem

The girls learn social distancing and the River is shut - Moored Bourne End, River Thames It’s been a while I know but we are both just fine here at Bourne End. Our days are full of little jobs, keeping the girls...
6 years ago
BOATS AND CRUISING `VALERIE`

Settling Into Oregon - *"All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream." ~Edgar Allen Poe; American Writer, editor, and literary critic (1809-1849)* I've been living ...
6 years ago
Narrow Boat Albert

Batteries replaced and recycled - It's the time of the year when temperatures begin to drop and batteries struggle. As I reported on our recent Autumn Cruise, our stater battery failed as w...
6 years ago
Indigo Dreaming

The Odyssey 2019: Day 10 – Part 3 - Sandbank by RAF No. 4 to the Nene I really enjoyed our time on the beach, but all too quickly the tide turned and we had to head back to sea. This proved t...
6 years ago
M. B. Willow

A’s First Voyage Day 10 - Fenny Stratford – Horton After the glorious sunshine of the last few days it was a shock to have rain and hail today. BoatBaby and I spent most of the day ...
7 years ago
NB The Manly Ferry a.k.a. NB Caxton

The End Is Nigh!!! - I went to London on Friday 5th October to see the oncologist for a routine check up and chat, she said that I appeared to be getting worse so she sent me ...
7 years ago
Narrowboat Chance

Dubai, Muscat, Petra, Herculaneum and Vesuvius - [image: P1000663] After flying out to Dubai we had four nights there before embarking on the P&O “Arcadia” for a cruise back to Southampton. Having been ...
8 years ago
Narrowboat QISMA

Feeling at home - No doubt about it. Upper Lough Erne feels like home. We took advantage of some fine weather to bi bimble about on Upper Lough Erne with no destination i...
8 years ago
The Travels of Gypsy Rover

Mayfield Lavender Fields - *Across the fields to Mayfield* I never realised how close to the country was Tracey's home. Carshalton in Surrey is very close to the Mayfield Lavender f...
8 years ago
Moore 2 Life

I have deactivated my Facebook account - Some of our readers know that I have terminal cancer. It is a shock to me and all my friends and family. That is why I have closed down my Facebook accoun...
8 years ago
nb Parisien Star

Photos - Pennsylvania & Ohio Amish -
9 years ago
Leo No 2

Oh Dear - Perhaps I could have been a little more forthright! I attended Northampton General Hospital (NGH) after requesting an appointment. The X-Rays, which were...
9 years ago
NarrowBoat Bones

Holidays Day 1..2... whatever - Time to dust the old blogger scape down and get blogging about my holidays. HOLIDAYS! A REAL HOLIDAY! I LOVE holidays and I am loving this holiday. Once I...
10 years ago
NB Windsong

Nb Windsong is for sale….. - Unfortunately, due to family circumstances, we have had to make the difficult decision to sell Nb Windsong. If anyone out there is interested in buying he...
10 years ago
Narrowboat Armadillo

Moving on, at last. - So the dental work is all finished and I now have a smile like a filmstar: Richard Kiel. We set out from Wigram's last Thursday and it has been travel alter...
10 years ago
Nb.Yarwood

Post lunch on a sandbank - So we have lunched and celebrated our arrival on the sandbank in the Wash and as the tide turns; we came out of Boston on a falling tide and it is now risi...
11 years ago
Narrowboat Oakfield

Down Caen Hill. - [image: IMG_0192a] [image: IMG_0197] [image: IMG_0227] Alas our time was up and we wanted to reverse onto the water point and it was drizzling with rain....
11 years ago
NB Beefur

Audlem - The weather forecasters predicted a 'very cold snap', so we hunkered down in Audlem for 5 days, thinking that Audlem was a good a place as any to be iced i...
11 years ago
Narrowboat "Ellen"

Wootton Rivers to All Cannings - After Wootton Rivers our next stop was Pewsey Wharf. The mooring there is poor but at least we were able to walk into Pewsey to stock up with provisions...
11 years ago
NB Serenity

Droitwich to Kegworth - [image: 071]Leaving the basin in Droitwich, now heading on to the Droitwich Barge Canal [image: 072] [image: 073] [image: 074] [image: 075] La...
11 years ago
NB Northern Pride

Come and visit us on Wordpress - our new blog! - We had an email recently from a blog follower saying he hadn't realised we'd moved our blog somewhere else - he'd been wondering why we hadn't posted on th...
12 years ago
Widebeam Boat Build Blog

Trip Blog Title - I have given lots of thought to the name of our new blog to chronicle our travels on the mainland European waterways. In the end I decided on simply WB Ava...
12 years ago
Narrowboat Tacet

The Tale of Tacet - [image: P1000304] Hi, nb Tacet here. I see this blog has had no postings for a while, it seems the Skipper and his First Mate have disappeared off, goo...
12 years ago
NB Rock 'n' Roll

Bon Voyage Rock 'n' Roll - Well, today's the day! This is the last sighting for me as I take Molly home as she's not well (more later). George follows them out of the ma...
12 years ago
Travelling in No Direction

It's Gone. - 7th November 2013 Poole, Dorset. On Tuesday we completed the sale of *No Direction *with the handover of the boat at Kings Bromley to the new owner Marcus...
12 years ago
Narrowboat Temujin - 2013 Germany here we come!

- *Wednesday 23**rd** October 2013* *Back to the UK.* Dover - like that flag!Sunny, mild but windy. Up at 7.30 am, threw all the stuff back into the bags and ...
12 years ago
Jandai - Our Narrowboat

Jandai is Sold - hello Thought I would just let you all know that Jandai is sold. I cannot describe how I feel about it, so I'm not going to try. I am now truly land-base...
12 years ago
nb Lucky Duck

Archive Blog - This blog is the archive of our five years of adventures on narrowboat Lucky Duck from looking for a boat to buying, living on, cruising, doing up, and fin...
12 years ago
NB Piston Broke

That's all folks!!!!!!!!! - Some of you may have heard that Piston Broke has been sold and tomorrow (Wednesday) is moving day. We have been busy packing and now the boat has a bit o...
12 years ago
nb Pickles no.2

My fridge door - I appreciate the need to blame someone for the ills of our society during an economic downturn. History is littered with examples and it's a well documente...
13 years ago
Narrowboat: The Green Man.

And so the reminiscing begins... - I threatened in my last post that I'd start reviewing our life aboard this boat and thought I better honour that promise. This post comes from a blog I wr...
13 years ago
Waterlily

Waterlily is now with her new owners - It was a happy and sad day today as we completed the sale on Waterlily. We met her new owners at Great Haywood and completed the paperwork. So Waterlily is...
13 years ago
NB Willawaw - The Revelations of a Narrowboater

The Surge of the Sea - New Book and Sequel - Work on the sequel to 'The Pull of The Tide' has fared rather better than expected and the Kindle edition will be available this month rather than April as...
13 years ago
nb Poppy

Back on the Leeds Liverpool - As expected, we didn't do the Ribble Link on Saturday & we were told it would probably be Monday or Tuesday but there was an 20% chance that it could be Su...
13 years ago
Narrowboat Caxton

Farewell Caxton - Yesterday we finished winterising Caxton in order to leave her safely for her new owners Paul and Elaine. So that's it, the end of our Caxton adventures an...
14 years ago
Dogsontour

It all goes a bit Pete Tong - If I see the B&Q in Nelson again, it will be too soon. Flamin’ Ada, I feel as if I’ve spent most of 2011 haunting aisle 5. I’ve lost count of the trips we’...
15 years ago
Narrowboat 4Evermoore

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