About us and our boat

We, Brian & Jane, live in Worcestershire and finally retired in 2011 after a combined 74 years(!) working in local government.

Having had a few hire-boat holidays and spent 4 years enjoying the canals on a shared ownership narrowboat, we wanted to spend more of our new-found free time boating. After much research, and touring many marinas and brokers, we decided to commission a brand new narrowboat of our own.

Bonjour is a 60ft semi-trad narrowboat built by Nigel Moore (NSM Narrowboats) in Worcestershire using a Colecraft shell built in Warwickshire - we like to support local business!

Bonjour was launched on 30 May 2011.

Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Postscript

So, we're home again.  A mountain of washing to do and the garden seems to have transformed itself into a jungle.

By the way, the fourth county was West Midlands (Worcestershire in old money) - a small corner thereof in the south-west of the Ring near Wolverhampton.  Thanks to Martin for this information, though the former working boatman with whom he discussed it described Rings as "only for b***** tourists".

Total: 275 miles, 162 locks, 9 tomatoes

25 days - 3 rain-free. 

There were times when we wondered why we did it. Perhaps our readers did too!

By way of explanation, I offer the following, attributed to Mark Twain:


"Twenty Years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

'Till the next trip...

Au revoir .

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