We finished off September with an excellent holiday on the canal. Navigating the canals of the UK on a narrow boat has long been my favourite holiday, first instilled in me by a couple of teachers at my secondary school who were married and lived on the banks of a canal and who were daft …
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break over
I have had a really nice break from work, mostly resisting the temptation to deal with emails and respond to texts and voice mails. I am looking forward to returning to work tomorrow though as I always hate leaving things in mid flight. It is not so much that I do not trust others as …
Two men in a boat
A rare photograph of me and my brother together risking our necks on water (well, relaxing on a narrow boat really).
Canal Christmas 2008
We took the unusual step this Christmas (2008) of hiring a narrow-boat for the week and navigating the canals of England whilst everyone else faced the normal stresses of the celebration period. We had a great time away from the hussle-and-bussle that normally goes with this period.
Scotland 08 – Friday
Heavy rain most of the night and still going strong in the morning. We did not feel motivated to do very much. We had planned a day out in a particularly beautiful area near by including a couple of waterfall visits. We decided, somewhat reluctantly, to head back to Inverness and hit the shopping centre. …
Scotland 08 – Thursday
Awoken by my youngest daughter at 7.20am today. Had hoped to lie in for a change as I have been getting up before 7am so far. Understandable though as it was her 15th birthday. We quickly got ourselves together and went through the appropriate ceremonies. The best part was when we revealed that, contrary to …
Scotland 08 – Wednesday
We headed for Inverness again today with a stop on the way at the Loch Ness Visitors’ Centre. We have been the latter in the past and not much has changed – still loads of "tat" (as my parents would have said) for gullible tourists to waste their money on. The associated hotel on the …
Scotland 08 – Tuesday
I wanted to minimise the amount of driving I did today so we chose to go to the nearest town: Fort Augustus. This is a very popular tourist spot featuring a series of locks on the Caledonian Canal leading down to Loch Ness. I did an unsuccessful hunt for Internet access in the town whilst …
Scotland 08 – Monday
Heading to Skye was an obvious choice give we were already on the main road for Skye via the Skye bridge. We were tempted to go by ferry for part of the journey but saved that for later. I have happy memories of Skye from when I was a child. We set off with no …
Scotland 08 – Sunday, the first day of our holiday
The priority for today was to get some more fuel and provisions. We had found several garages the day before had no diesel which was a bit worrying as we only had about 70 miles left in the tank. We headed to Inverness, about 35 miles away. If we did not find fuel there then …