... cruise. Open-top canal boats as well as canal bikes, which you pedal yourself, are available for this purpose. Guided canal boats can be rented for private trips. Sunset and night-time cruises come highly recommended.

Visiting one or more ...

... to be available to finally 'trim' the boat so that it is properly stable. The ballast has to be suitably dense - narrowboats on the English Canals are often ballasted with engineering bricks. Apparently it's quite pricey if I want it quickly and the ...

... with sheep and chatted with the people on board each canal boat that passed from the other direction. We soon learned that canal boaters are very friendly and endlessly patient and helpful.
We recommend setting off in a party of three or ...

... , on the Oxford Canal. The two centres are ideally placed for mooring in the South Midlands and the South East and offer all the usual services, engineering, slipway, narrowboat brokerage, chandlery, gas, diesel, pump-out and elsan disposal.

... on a canal boat, as well as the Warwick Castle pub. If you have time, you can take a trip on a narrowboat.

EUSTON / KINGS CROSS

Euston Station serves the West Midlands and North-West. It’s an unglamorous 1960s structure so head ...

... that an Amsterdam tourist visitor would like to visit, there is a canal that they can stroll alongside of or take a canal boat to arrive at their destination.

Any tourist who is a lover of fine art will be thrilled with the selection ...