Cruising South July to September 2019

    We returned from our Greek Odyssey tired but happy, and ready to continue our waterway journeys. Repairs and Maintenance Prior to our holiday we had arranged for a new gearbox to be fitted to Celtic Maid in the Marina where we had left her. The very leaky and noisy old gearbox was a…

July cruising 2017 7/8/17

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We have spent the last month or so retracing our steps, fare-welling travel companions, visiting friends and family and preparing to leave Celtic Maid for a while to pay a visit to Australia. Leaving Peterborough, heading back toward Northampton, with NB Sylph, we revisited many of our favourite moorings from previously. For some reason the…

Finishing the Leicester ring 19/5/17

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Unlike most good boaters we have not completed the Leicester Ring of canals and rivers in one smooth journey. Instead we have completed it in parts – in a generally anticlockwise direction we have done the Norton Junction to Braunston Junction, and Braunston Junction to Fradley Junction sections several times. But we have now finally…

Our journey continues 21/4/17

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It has been 4 months since our last blog sharing our narrowboat journey through England. But we have not been hibernating through the Northern winter months! Our trip to South America has been detailed in three previous blogs – Peru, Ecuador, and Argentina. Unfortunately, poor health kept us tethered in Bosworth Marina for far longer…

October cruising 31/10/16

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]October has now come to an end, Autumn is in full swing, our clocks have gone back an hour and we’ve covered the most waterways in any blog yet!!!! We are now comfortably moored on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal near Rea Bridge, still traveling with NB Sylph and enjoying new waterways. The past month…