We’d set a date for our departure from Tingdene Hartford Marina of last month/mid-April ish (we arrived end of January the previous year) with the intention to cruise the Ouse at leisure to attend Crick’s annual Narrow Boat Festival at the end of May Bank Holiday weekend. Steve suggested we do a test cruise without […]
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Jump A Year Forward
Living On Board a Refit We’ve spent a year doing up Pegasus. Steve in charge of floors, walls, plumbing, electrical and carpentry works. I’ve been in charge of getting out of the way, dump runs, supply collections, oiling, varnishing and domestic goddess duties. Having been at times without a kitchen, bathroom, hot water and sometimes […]
Read MoreHello Pegasus
We survived being without hot water for our first few days on board our new narrow boat, although my teeth weren’t happy being brushed with ice cold water and practically receded into my gums. We survived being without heating for our first few days and blessed my £27 bargain of a Duck and Goose Down […]
Read MoreOur First Fortnight of Living on Board
Both Steve and I want to let you know how much we were blown away with the number of comments posted on our first blog of Narrow Boating and the many messages by texts and calls you have sent us. To receive so many good wishes has been most unexpected, very much appreciated and certainly […]
Read MoreThe Decision
It was early October 2021 in the North of France, coming to the end of our one year’s adventure in our Wobble Box, when Steve asked me how would I fancy living on a narrow boat. We’d been away for a year; ten months of which I absolutely loved, the final two months for me […]
Read MoreThe Final Leg – Back Home
I would like to tell you that we’ve arrived back home, the caravan has been emptied and cleaned, all of its contents are back in the house, I’ve done wash load after wash load, gotten our belongings out of store from the man cave, our clothes are back in the dressing room and we’re ship […]
Read MoreCreuse Nature – The Final Sunshine
Before leaving Cap d’Agde we went for our Antigen tests as late as we could, so we had as much of the three days’ cover possible whilst driving North. We set off in drizzle and got ourselves comfortable in the Poacher with the heater on and the wipers going for a long drive. Previously we […]
Read MoreGoodbye French Riviera
During our three weeks’ stay at Cap d’Agde there was no urgency to get up early, the sun continued to shine, I had my sun lounger to sprawl on, the beach close by, the Mediterranean to swim in and there were plenty of bars and restaurants within walking distance for us to visit and people […]
Read MoreLe Cap d’Agde Méditerranée
It’s taken me a while to think about what to write and how to write this post, but I think I got there! We arrived in the French Riviera a week ago and checked into the family campsite Centre Naturiste Rene Oltra, established 70 years ago, which is within the gated Cap d’Agde Naturist Village […]
Read MoreSassello – Che Bello
We chose the campsite in Modena for a short stopover, because it was conveniently located just off the motorway and of course conveniently close to get back on. Our minimum stay, unless we are in a rush, is two nights which is what we did there to give us time to plan where to go […]
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