Marple – Lock 15 As I mentioned in the previous post, the Cheshire Ring has a lot of locks – 92 to be precise. And they come in batches. We collected our narrowboat near Congleton close to the SW end of Macclesfield, and headed off in an anticlockwise...
Crossing the Marple Aquaduct As promised – more delights of the Cheshire Ring. This circular waterway route is possibly one of the most scenic, covering a distance of 97 miles, through 92 locks, 5 tunnels and over many aquaducts. The first picture shows us...
Approaching Snake Bridge on Macclesfield Canal Despite the fact that bridges can set height restrictions for one’s boat, they are a beautiful and interesting facet of the waterways. In 2007 we did a 14 day trip around the Cheshire Ring, on a hired traditional...
Narrowboat “Sextant” By now I am sure you know how we feel about France, so you can probably see where this urge to buy a boat springs from. There are more than 6000 kilometres of canals or rivers in France, and that doesnt include the Brittany area. What...
Street in Paris The French definitely know how to enjoy life, and the language is wonderful to listen to. Not easy to speak, and even harder to understand, but certainly lovely to hear. The first picture shows a street in Paris with evocative sounding shop types...
The French seem to have got this right. In my post of 4th December I touched on this when writing about the French lockkeepers and their working hours. Enjoying life appears to be the important bit, and work an inconvenient necessity. Nevertheless, things...
My love of boats goes back to my early years when I went on holiday with my parents to Knysna in the Cape.
We stayed at a hotel on stilts, and I played in rowing boats and little motor boats on the lagoon.