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Thanks for your words Graham, much appreciated. If you see several people with worried looks on their faces scratching their heads, that will be us! What are the pubs like along these routes? after a days cruising we will want to moor up and relax in a nice pub without too much hassle... By the way, everyones friendliness and eagerness to help is excellent and very much appreciated, i will post up a report after the holiday of how it all goes!

Thanks chaps, you're right it's supposed to be a relaxing holiday but your mind gets to wandering. Just concerned that on arrival they decide to not let us out on the boat or the holiday becomes a washout due to the weather, similarly being new to this game we don't relish the chance of having to contend with high water levels and strong currents! Does anyone have any tips regarding the best route to take. Starting from Alvecote? nothing too strenuous or challenging because as i've said we are relative novices, easy mooring and things to do off the boat would be of interest aswell.

Thanks Ernie, Will the route to stick to be made clear to us when we arrive at Alvecote?

What with the recent adverse weather conditions and flooding in certain areas, i'd just like some reassurance regarding my up and coming boating holiday on the coventry canal (starting from Alvecote) on Saturday. Where does one stand with regards to to bad conditions, does it get to a stage where they won't let you take the boat out for the week, or if we do take the barge out will we feel the full force of the conditions. As a rel;ative novice i'm just not really sure where we stand here! Sorry for the silly questions, but any help will be much appreciated.

Hello, you probably get these sort of requests quite often but here goes anyway. I'm relatively new to this, having only been on one boating holiday before around Aversham to Stratford e.t.c Attempting it this year, we are starting out at Alvecote but are not sure on the best way to go from there. Being slightly new to this game, we don't want anything to heavy, a nice leisurely route whereby we're not going to be affected by too many obstacles, but at the same time visiting some nice towns, with nice pubs and different things to do. it's 1 week and any help on mooring spots and routing would be muchb appreciated!