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Very interesting series. A lot of history. Just starting the 3rd season.
http://http://youtu.be/8zRI7xwN_mU
http://http://youtu.be/8zRI7xwN_mU
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Not sure about the link above,
Search YouTube, "Great Canal Journeys"
Very interesting series. A lot of history. Just starting the 3rd season.
http://http://youtu.be/8zRI7xwN_mU
TIt's always been so surprising to me that boaters operate the locks themselves on so many of those small canals in England (France too maybe?)
Marin, hard to imagine you traveling at that slow a pace.......more than once.The locks on the continent are for the most part operated by lockkeepers or are automated. This is one reason we find the British canals so much more interesting. We have been running narrowboats in England since 1990.
I took this photo while descending a flight of 17 locks on the Shropshire Union canal near Audlem. Friends that joined us on the trip are operating the lock. We will pass the boat locking up in the basin between the locks that is there for this reason. It is waiting in lower lock for the water to drop in our chamber so our friends can open the doors and we can drive out.
Marin, hard to imagine you traveling at that slow a pace.......more than once.
Ted
If you are going to England to do a Narrowboat trip, you might try Scotland and fit in a lift on the Falkirk Wheel. https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=Falkirk+Wheel&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
They visit it in the third Season, I am putting that trip on my Bucket List!
Very interesting series. A lot of history. Just starting the 3rd season.
http://http://youtu.be/8zRI7xwN_mU