by Patrick | Jan 8, 2022 | Adventures, Information, UK |
Why a trip to The Three Magpies? Several reason for the trip to The Three Magpies: Since I moved the boat to our mooring here at Foxhangers near Devizes, (Read about that trip here) the boat has hardly moved, other than across to the pump out. Since we bought the...
by Patrick | Nov 4, 2021 | Adventures, Information, UK |
View from the bottom of the Caen Hill Flight! The title of this post is probably a bit incorrect, as we had already past the actual town of Devizes, but the Foxhangers moorings at the bottom of the Caen Hill Flight is still technically in Devizes. The team My friends...
by Patrick | Oct 9, 2021 | Adventures, Information, UK |
This part of the journey from Newbury to Devizes takes us from Pewsey, along about 10 miles of canal with no locks, but many narrow and overgrown sections, till we reach Devizes and start the descent of Caen Hill. We did the first three locks going down and moored up...
by Patrick | Jul 22, 2021 | Adventures, Information, UK |
I love it when a plan comes together, and the trip from Windsor to Reading went pretty much to plan! Shirley Anne in Windsor The planning app I used said it would take 14 hours – we took 13.75 hours. The other part of the plan was for Karen to hire a car, collect me...
by Patrick | Jul 1, 2021 | Adventures, Information, UK |
Like most things – It’s all in the planning! Since my last post we have done the deed and Shirley Anne (soon to be Shangri La) is ours. Karen collected the keys last week. And now we are planning how to get her from Windsor on the Thames to near Devizes on the Kennet...
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.
