Tag: Thames

• Cats Aboard

  

  One thing that I most often hear from people about narrowboats is the astonishment that cats live aboard boats. Many boaters have cats! We of course have the best cat in the world but he is by and far not the only cat living the boatlife. Don’t they run away? Most common question! No, if…

  fivebeansoup

  29/08/2022

  Boat life, cats, Uncategorized

  Boat life, boating, british countryside, canal, canalboat, cat, cats, cats on boats, cruising, grand union canal, Milton Keynes, narrowboat, nature, pets, Running, Thames

• Thames…The Journey Home

  

  We left the Kennet and Avon on the Tuesday with an aim to get as far as we could manage before booking our use of the Thames Lock at Brentford. We were not sure how long we would need to get to Teddington. The first day started off pretty well. There was one tree that…

  fivebeansoup

  22/08/2022

  Boat life, Uncategorized

  Boat life, british countryside, canal, canalboat, cruising, Hampton Court Palace, Henley, Kennet and Avon canal, London, Marlowe, narrowboat, nature, River Thames, Royal Palaces, Runnymede, Shepperton, Teddington, Thames, Tidal Thames, Windsor, Windsor Castle

• 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

• The River Thames….part 1

  

  Canals we were good on but to get to the Kennet and Avon Canal we have to use the River Thames. That is big open water compared to a little canal. We were, to say the least, terrified for what it would be like. The Sunday morning Alan push me off and walked along the…

  fivebeansoup

  13/06/2022

  Boat life

  abingdon, Boat life, british countryside, canal, narrowboat, nature, Oxford canal, River Thames, Thames

• Abingdon on Thames

  

  I had a birthday recently and my wonderful husband took to on a two night trip to Abingdon in Oxfordshire. We had two night on a narrowboat in the marina. We had been thinking about maybe living on a boat one day in the future. Neither of us had been on a narrowboat before so…

  fivebeansoup

  03/10/2020

  Walking

  abingdon, canal, narrowboat, Thames, Vegan