IssyThom

Haha - not this time ???? Maybe next year ?

Sssshhh... I'm hoping OH forgets this option ? I did look at some information about it - it would be amazing but I feel a little scared - not being a natural water baby ? Not this year... ? Was it? We had more or less ruled it out as too far on from Lincoln and was it worth it.. I do think now that it might be interesting as couple of people have said so - I'll do a bit of research ?

It might be too ambitious - we're not going to stick madly to it if it seems too fast. We've only ever gone anywhere within the limits of annual leave, so we are used to running to a tight schedule and heading home after a week! We'll have to remember to slow and breathe... ? Have a good summer yourselves x Ooh really good info - thank you. We did a small Leicester Ring a couple of years ago, and had a lovely stay at Castle Gardens but I know it's only small. x

I'm Issy, we've been live-aboards on NB Josephine (my OH is Nigel) for eight years, cruising mostly GU Northamptonshire while I worked ft at Northampton Guildhall. I have taken early retirement at beginning of May and we're just preparing to go go go on Friday, 1st June! We're at Market Harborough now and going to head for Leicester, get our bottom blacked (first time tssk) at Langley Mill, check out the Chesterfield canal, take a look at Lincoln, maybe Boston. Then across Burton on Trent, Loughborough way round to Ashby to visit my sister in Hinckley. We're going to Fairport Convention Festival at Cropredy in August and then, instead of hurrying back as usual, carrying on to Banbury and Oxford. Then back to Braunston and along to Stratford upon Avon via Leamington and Warwick and return to Northampton in September. Sound like a plan? We'll see.. ? xx