Images from a week traipsing the canals between Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford are now online at this link.

Here’s a selection of some of these. You can also click here for a review of “One Man and a Narrowboat: Slowing Down Time on England’s Waterways”; a book I read while cruising the waterways.

Canal reflection

The 396m Shrewley tunnel

Bridge reflections

Whatever you read, there’s no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It’s kind of like being in a womb.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick

Open bridge

Ducks

eat

Being on a boat that’s moving through the water, it’s so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what’s important and what’s not.
~ James Taylor

Fishing

Flowers

Old lock cottage

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you’re on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.
~ Jeff Bridges

Canal houses

Inside our home of the week

Colourful ornaments on a canal boat

The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.
– Dom Degnon

Inside the lock

Opening up

Canal life

Twenty years from now you will be more disppointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain

Waterside dining

A raised waterway

Rosie on the lock gates

There is NOTHING–absolutely nothing–half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
– Kenneth Grahame

Sunset near Oxford

O captain my captain – Terry at the wheel

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