3 Days to go Pegasus still securely moored exactly where it was the night before – feeeeeeeling good. Steve is working at the back (sorry stern) playing with electrics and engine oil and I’m wondering when I can get my oil out, the sun cream variety not the cooking one. The sun is flooding the bow and the sun worshipper within me can’t resist spread eagling myself in it to catch as many of the sun’s rays as possible before it disappears above the trees around 2ish. The option of switching off was decided, not by Steve or me, but by the lack of any communication signal whatsoever. The phone si ..read more

We set off Sunday morning 14th May our deadline. Not caring if there was still a river warning in place as we really did want to be the other side of Wansford and its threat of river closure the following day. At last the sun is shining. At last I can catch up with laundry, hanging it in the cratch to dry and at last I look forward to my life being more exciting than domestic chores. I might even strip down the layers and winter boots to t shirt, shorts and sandals. Steady girl, steady. We did hundreds of locks that day. OK about 6 or 8, and arrived at a place called Fotherington. The local Fa ..read more

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 shore power which was more than prudent as we found a problem with the engine.  Me? I would have been gung ho and it would have been “Huston, we have a problem”. Luckily being a member of River Canal Rescue they were able to get us going to get back to the marina, diagnose the ..read more

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 all at once its amazing how I suddenly became appreciative of everything I’ve had and taken for granted my entire life living in various homes – including the caravan! I remember an occasion when a friend came to visit and asked “how can you live like ..read more

This was our view of the Adriatic from our caravan at Camp Galeb We remembered our excitement at arriving in Croatia, a country neither of us had been to before, way back at the end of March. We stayed for six weeks at Camping Stobreč, the weather was cold, especially overnight and first thing, we slept under double duvets, everyone wore masks, we loved our excursions in bearable weather conditions, there were evening curfews, our local restaurant plied us with freebies and the campsite with 300 places never had more than around 18 units during our stay. Returning to Croatia at the beginning ..read more

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 Duvet from TK Maxx especially purchased for the boat. We survived our first two weeks of waking up wondering what emergency repairs we had to immediately attend to, before even thinking about what we wanted to do that day. We survived last weekend when we moved the rest of our worldly goods in sev ..read more

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 a boost of encouragement for our latest adventure. And breath! Us not you!!! Since boarding we (and by we, I mean mostly Steve) have been fire fighting. This morning is the first morning we’ve approached without a list of essential repairs taking priority. Initially, ‘we’ had to see to the locks on the front i ..read more

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 were more like an endurance test. I’d had enough of restricted space, I missed my kitchen and I missed entertaining on a large scale. It took me less than a nano second to think about moving from a ‘cube’ to a ‘tube’. It didn’t sound attractive.  I couldn’t even make it look attractive in my head. I said I wo ..read more

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 shape. But I can’t! After doing a runner from a start up campsite we aimed for Camping Vallee de la Selune, Normany, which was the first campsite we stopped at on the way out. The first day of our trip was spent exploring Mont-Saint-Michel back in October 2020 so we have done a full circle(ish). Mont-St-Michel ..read more

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 limited ourselves not to overdo a day’s driving, but the further North we got the more determined we were to make it to our next destination Creuse Nature, Boussac, without a stop in the middle especially as it had stopped raining. This would save us not only a set up, a pack down and a day’s travel but also ..read more