NB Zindagi

It has been a long time since we posted anything on this blog, so you may have thought that we have disappeared!  Well, we are not living on board any more, but we do get out on Zindagi for sho...

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Boating with a difference!  No, we haven't taken Zindagi up to Scotland, but we HAVE just had an amazing boat trip north-east from Fort William up to Inverness, via the Great Glen, including ...

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Having moved Zindagi to Hatherton Marina in early October, we knew that we would need to get up there again soon to prepare the boat for the colder months.  We also wanted to replace the old c...

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. . . twice in one day! Yes, the time had come to move Zindagi back onto the main canal system, so we made arrangements for a lorry trip and a crane at each end of the journey. We chugged ...

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When we moved 'Zindagi' to the Grand Western in October 2014, one of our main objectives was to be able to do some maintenance work without needing to travel 4 hours + each way to get to the boa...

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As we have become more and more involved with life back in Devon, having Zindagi moored at Blisworth has become more and more difficult to justify.  4 hours driving - exactly 200 miles - before ...

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More than 10 months since we returned to Blisworth from our 2012 canal travels, we actually managed to get out on the boat for more than just a short chug to get the bottom blacked! We dr...

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Since we last 'blogged' in January, visits to Blisworth and Zindagi have been few and well-spaced!  In the colder weather, we tried to visit roughly once a month, so that we could make su...

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Many of you know that we have now returned to rural mid-Devon. After nearly six years living on board 'Zindagi', it is proving a real wrench to have moved most of our belongings out of the bo...

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Having slipped unobtrusively through Leicester's northern suburbs, we came along the 'Mile Straight', as the canal and River Soar make their joint presence felt.  Soon we would leave the riv...

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Back in late April, we had come through Great Haywood on our way northwards to Stoke-on-Trent, the Caldon Canal and points north.  Now, at the end of September (yes, the blog is still out of da...

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Nantwich is just a couple of miles south of Hurleston Junction, where we had rejoined the Shropshire Union from the Llangollen, but we stopped here for a few days to get a replacement circulatin...

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Our first trip on the Llangollen Canal was just 10 days or so after we started our canal travels back in 2007.  The boat still felt new, we were still getting used to it, and David & Mary had j...

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Just before we left the Bridgewater Canal, we took a small diversion.  Back in Stockton Heath, when we filled up with diesel at Thorn Marine, we asked them what they thought of the Runcorn '...

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The Yorkshire side may have scenic views over remote countryside but, coming down the Lancashire side, the Leeds & Liverpool presents more of its industrial heritage.  In the 'Weavers Triangle...

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Having got off the River Aire just in time to avoid the late June floods, we sat in Leeds for a day and a half, at this very secure mooring site.  It was so secure that we could only get to ...

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As soon as we heard that the River Calder was navigable again, we 'set sail' from Huddersfield, under this unique lifting bridge, the Turnbridge Loco Liftbridge (1865).  If you click on the ...

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Looking down from the hills above Dobcross, the mist obscures most of the valley through which we had travelled as Zindagi climbed up from Ashton-under-Lyne into the Pennine area of Saddlewor...

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Coming down from the Caldon Canal and back into the edge of Stoke-on-Trent in the second week of May, we headed north-west on the Trent & Mersey and came to Harecastle Tunnel.  Probably the ...

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Shortly after joining the Trent & Mersey Canal at Fradley Junction, we came up Wood End Lock, beautifully remote in the Staffordshire countryside. More signs of a slowly emerging Sprin...

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We had never heard the phrase 'blackthorn winter' until we moved to Devon in 1987.  The tradition (not just in Devon, apparently) is that there is usually a spell of cold and wintry weather ...

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During the last few months, we have seen a little more of our family . . . Towards the end of 2011, we descended on Adam in Shrewsbury for a couple of days of not-doing-very-much-together, an...

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We have actually set off on our travels now but, before we get you right up to date, let's share some of the images we gathered during the rest of our 'hibernation' in Blisworth Marina . . . A...

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Back in Blisworth at the beginning of November, our 'second home' as it has become, it was good to be able to meet up with friends in the village again and settle in to our 'winter routine'. Our...

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Having arrived back in Blisworth at the end of August, we moored up on the towpath between Candle Bridge and Station Road. It's a little nearer to the village than the marina is, and we would soo...

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