Friday, May 11, 2012

How it all started


In January 2012 we were visiting some friends who happen to live on a boat on the river Itchen near Southampton, Dan and Mogs. They have been living on houseboats for some years now, this being their third I think. We had called  them a few days earlier to arrange a visit and Dan suggested that we go with him up to Cropredy on the Oxford Canal, to move 'Little Edna', their cute little 20ft narrowboat. The time had come to move Edna North for the forthcoming year and so we set off around 6.30 am, chipping the ice from the windscreens and braving the temperature at minus 6. Brave because we actually live in the Maldives, which is a constant 31 degrees C, somewhat different eh?

So we travelled up to just north of Banbury and had the most amazing day, finding Edna freezing on the side of the cut in the stunning Cropredy and travelled about 4 hours North to leave her for a few days. This was all it took for us to decide to come back to the UK to live and buy a boat of our own to spend most of our early retirement on, or so that is the plan as they say.

We are now in mid May back in the heat and researching and planning like mad to realise our dream hopefully by the end of 2012. So here we go, the start of an adventure or as we are thinking, our Narrow Escape!!!

Thank you for reading and we do hope you enjoy the journey with us, however long you spend with us!!

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