Tag: Reading

• First Impressions of the Kennet and Avon Canal

  

  We left Pangbourne early in the morning. The aim is to get off the River Thames and onto the Kennet and Avon Canal at Reading.sounds simple enough. Once on the canal we can see about mooring just after the town centre for lunch and then go on for a while longer to get into the […]

  fivebeansoup

  20/06/2022

  Boat life

  Boat life, british countryside, canal, Crick Boat Show, grand union canal, Kennet and Avon canal, narrowboat, nature, Reading, River Kennet, Thames

• Thames…part two

  

  The weather was fair and the hour early when we cruised away from Abingdon on the River Thames. Our goal for the day was to arrive at Wallingford and moor up around noon. Things would not be going to our plans. Not even out of Abingdon the steering felt wrong to Alan. We were far […]

  fivebeansoup

  17/06/2022

  Boat life

  abingdon, Boat life, british countryside, canal, grand union canal, narrowboat, nature, Pangbourne, Reading, Thames