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Hi All, Booked a boat called Little Pea from Clifton Cruisers in Rugby for a week in August. Can you suggest some routes to take from Rugby ? Open to all suggestions for routes: Rings, out and back, long days, leisurely cruising. Hopefully your advice will help my planning. Thanks Mark

Hi, I’m planning a 2 week family Canal holiday in August for 6 people. Changing 2 people (Parents) after 7 days for 2 other people (more Parents) can anyone suggest 2 different circular routes from the same hire base or a week out week back route with rail connection back to near base after 7 days ? Difficult I know ??

Hi experts! I hope you can set us straight. We are a family of four from British Columbia, Canada, coming to England for a month in July. We want to do a canal boat tour as a way to slow down, rather than race from place-to-place the entire time. At home, we live in a rural area, and so endless countryside is not what we're looking for. Also, we have two boys aged 13 and 15, a "high energy" father, and of course, mom who tries her best to keep up but sometimes just waves goodbye to the men and settles down with a good book and glass of … well, I'm not fussy. We're looking for a week with a variety to keep us all happy. A good selection but not endless parade of locks, lifts, aqueducts etc., smaller villages with great pubs, fiddle music (we play), perhaps farmers markets, and ideally a side trip to a cool castle or anything with a dungeon. Did I say lots of pubs, fiddle music and great food? Perhaps a bit of industrial history for the boys too. The occasional wooded glen or farmer's field is lovely, but our focus would be more on town life. Mostly smaller is better, but a nice bustling destination one night would be great too. As we want to explore as we go, we'd rather not be on a schedule where we have to spend 7-8 hours/day underway. I can see 4-6 being about right. Given our "onward" mentality, a circle tour or one-way trip is our idea of a good time but I'm not sure if there are any routes that would meet our needs that can be done in a week without considerably more time "underway". Ideally, perhaps a short-break (one way) route that most would take 4-5 fairly busy days to complete, that we could spread out over a week. We are not set on any specific area of England and so are flexible about location. I would greatly appreciate some recommendations as to what routes to consider, or if we need to consider an out-and-back route. I know … it looks completely different coming from the other direction. ;-) BTW - Great forum! Thanks very much!