In 2013 we had our first narrowboating holiday and a dream started to take shape.
Here we are in 2020, with our brand new 57′ Bickerstaffe Boat Company narrowboat Beau Romer, living aboard and learning about our new life.
About
Martyn retired from the electricity supply industry in 2019. After nearly 30 years working in social housing Mandella decided to take a career break and cruise off with him.
We’re both from Dorset, but now based in West Lancashire. Home is our boat, and wherever she takes us.
Blog
What a Wonderful World
We’ve navigated all of the Seven Wonders of the Waterways now: The Caen Hill Flight (on a hire boat in 2012) The Barton Swing Aqueduct The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct The Anderton Boat Lift The Burnley Embankment The Bingley Five Rise And as of this week, The Standedge Tunnel We had a few days in Slaithwaite. I …
Wet Wet Wet
While we were in Hebden Bridge we had a visit from Penny and Andrew. It’s lovely when we get friends on the boat, and we got to celebrate Andrew’s birthday a couple of days early with a tasty pub lunch at the Stubbing Wharf. On the return from Hebden Bridge we moored for a couple …
Down Down, Deeper and Down
It’s been quite a week. Our first night’s mooring was in Elland (as in Elland Road, Leeds United’s home ground). I’m sorry to say we found it a sad little town, all hairdressers and takeaways, and boasting a church with the most melancholy cemetary ever. So many of the gravestones are from the mid 1800s, …
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email: me@mandella.co.uk