Canal Boat

... Lake Bled with an overnight in Ljubljana. Follow the Adriatic shores past the port of Trieste, then cross into Italy to Venice. Enjoy a canal boat ride to St. Mark's and marvel at this amazing "floating" city. Stop in Assisi to visit St. Francis' Basilica, ...

... locks; double and even triple, very soon out of that port.   An experienced English couple in their narrow English canal boat (I had canal boat envy when I saw how low to the water and easy it was to manage) helped us through our first lock and ...

Liane drove us to train station and we started our journey down to Long Eaton to get on our canal boat. Interesting train trip, we had 3 changes and that all went fine BUT I looked out the window and we were zooming past Long Eaton Station! We stopped at ...

... a little place called Wrenbury Mill (just south of Chester) and take a 65 foot/22 metre long x 7 foot/2 metre wide canal boat up the Llangollen (approximate pronunciation: "Clanclocklen") arm of the Shropshire Union Canal. The goal was approximately sixty ...

... , so we took it easy this morning, and made our way over to Warwick Avenue station by Tube late in the morning to go on a canal boat ride from Little Venice to Camden Lock. The narrowboat we rode in, 'Jason', is one of the oldest working canal boats still ...

... and gold leaf, in stark contrast to the practices of many Buddhists themselves. A couple of bizarre highlights from Bangkok - Taking the canal boat on our first day. On the dockside we met a middle aged Australian couple, who were staying near to the ...

... little place called Thornhill.  We had arranged to call and see a couple we had got talking to and spent an evening with on the canal boat.  We put Ronnies address into the gps and he lived right next door to the pub!  He was really pleased to see us, ...

... . At all other times, the bridges are raised for vehicle traffic. We were the only yacht to transit the canal and we were very lucky. The pilot book says a boat may have to wait for several hours before transiting; we had a slight 10 minute wait. We had a ...

... to bed now because the Panama Canal starts at 6:30 am tomorrow! 　 December 11As I type this we are traversing the Panama Canal!! The weather started out rainy and warm, went to sunny and steamy, and is now pleasant and cloudy. At 7:30 am the ...

We were up early to start our trip through the Panama Canal. The liner was circling similar to planes stacking to come into Heathrow. We were in a line of ships - no 19 to go through from south to north that day. It was bright and sunny and things looked ...

... buys the very very first spot in the auction where the money goes to charity. Today was so cool because we went through the Kiel Canal. I don't have pictures ready to put up, but I will add them as soon as I have time. It is this really small canal ...

... Panama City again and headed to the Panama Canal on the way to Eastern Panama.  Saw a few very large ships pass through the canal, visited the museum and were impressed by the whole size of the thing, including the fees for a large boat, about ...

... of land and it was Nero who started the digging, using 6000 slaves, but it was abandoned shortly after starting. The present canal was started by a French company and finished by the Greeks 1893.  It was enlarged after damage suffered in the Second ...

... and it was hot. The pub we are at was built in 1647 so worth the walk up here. We have just moored along the canal. We asked a girl for directions as there was no sign and kept walking-later she passed us again and pulled up and gave us further ...

... walk from the bus stop to the boat pick-up, the boat people said " Why don't you go to Briare – go across the Canal Bridge, it’s lovely". Thanks a bunch, we could have known that before we started!! So we did, anyway, and stayed there the ...

... . We had lots of fun on the canal boats and JP reminisced about her previous trips and adventures in Amsterdam. On the canal boats we were amazed about the captains ability to manouver the boat through the sometimes narrow spaces and turn it on a ...

This morning we travelled down the canal today down to Burton on Trent. We really needed to do the washing and this was the place available. We moored our boat filled up our water tank and then headed off on foot to the laundry. We had to keep asking ...

... walkers in Scotland and Wales.  Everyone is friendly and is interested in our trip.  From there we made a bee line for Llangollen Canal where we just made it for a 12:15 excursion along the canal in a 72 foot canal boot.  The trip was ...