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Category: England

The Obstacle Course: Narrowboating on the K&A Canal

June 11, 2025 Doug and Cathy Hull

Thirty-seven user-operated locks, nine swing bridges, two aqueducts – out and back. Protective swan-parents, oncoming boats, shallow water, strong winds, a hail storm: hurdles we

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Scarp and Dip: Walking the Cotswold Way

June 9, 2025 Doug and Cathy Hull

Up and down, up and down we walk. Up and along the Cotswold Edge, the western escarpment of the famous Cotswold Hills in southwest England.

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The Owl and the Scaredy-Cat

June 1, 2016 Doug and Cathy Hull

The Owl and the Scaredy-Cat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat. Skipper Doug loved every minute of it, crew Cathy experienced a

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English Breakfast

April 29, 2016 Doug and Cathy Hull

Cycle the rabbit warren of traffic-congested streets and alleys, paddle four hours on the River Lea in a canoe painted like a Holstein cow, and

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