Narrowboat holiday in London
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Oh, there's nothing like messing around on the water. Forget ducks and lily pads and weeping willows and scenic English villages, though. Think blighted industrial landscapes, waste processing plants, old nags grazing by the side of the canal and men with pit bulls loitering, suspiciously. Just south of Enfield, in a prettily painted narrowboat called Jessie, moving along at a stately four miles per hour, we glide gently into the kind of landscape that looks like you might find Sigourney Weaver armed with a flame thrower: there are pylons on one side, the M25 just ahead, darkened underpasses providing the ideal cover in which to take crack cocaine, and beyond, delights still to come, Edmonton and Tottenham.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: October 03, 2006
Long weekends in Britain: Canal boating westward
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Some tips for the narrowboat novice, in no particular order. Position your boat correctly in the lock, or you will upend and flood it. Keep control of the windlass when you are unwinding lock gates, or it could fly off and take out your eye. Turn off the engine before fiddling with the propeller, or it will chew up your fingers. Don't sit on the roof when going under a bridge. Don't sail at night. Don't moor in other people's spaces.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: January 24, 2009
20 fabulous house boats
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City self-catering
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Date Published: April 20, 2008
Green travel: Around the world - on trains, buses and boats
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Karin Andreasson makes the long trip to Thailand
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: November 06, 2006
Slow boat to Shannon
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'Food?" Seamus, our taxi driver, raises his eyebrows in the rear view mirror as we pass through the night-quiet streets of Jamestown and out into the darkness of the County Leitrim countryside. "Ah, well, food's bigger than drink in Ireland now."
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: May 09, 2007
Slow boat to Timbuktu
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Olive-brown water and marsh grass stretched as far as we could see. An elegant, white-headed African sea eagle gazed down imperiously from a riverside tree as our boat glided past. Globes of weaverbird nests dangled precariously from shrubs, like lanterns waiting to be lit come nightfall. Hovering above the water we saw pied kingfishers, black and white like chequer-board. Chestnut-coloured African jacanas walked delicately over the plate-sized leaves and creamy-white flowers of water lilies burgeoning in the shallows.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: December 27, 2008
Canal boat charts way to greener ships
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Meandering along the Birmingham to Worcester canal, the narrowboat Ross Barlow seems an unlikely weapon in the battle against global warming. Yet according to Rex Harris, the scientist who converted the pioneering zero-emissions canal boat, it could offer a way to green the world's shipping industry.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: June 16, 2008
