Narrowboat Maid of the Mist Blog - 2010

I hope you enjoyed following us on our travels during 2010, and will continue to do so during 2011.

Just a few facts for you from January 2010 to December 2010:

Miles cruised: 1,3046

Locks operated: 1075

Cruise hours: 839

Canals visited: Shropshire Union, Middlewich Branch, Trent and Mersey, Staffs and Worcester, Grand Union, Wryley and Essington, Birmingham Canal Navigations, Worcester and Birmingham, Stratford on Avon, Grand Union Paddington Arm, Regents Canal, River Thames, Kennet and Avon, Bristol Avon, Oxford Canal, Dudley No.2 and Dudley No. 1, Stourbridge Canal

Obviously we visited some of the canals above twice on return journeys etc.

Cities/towns visited: Nantwich, Audlem, Market Drayton, Festival Park - Stoke on Trent, Stone, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Dudley, Leamington Spa, Uxbridge, Brentford, Little Venice, Paddington, Camden, Windsor, Kingston upon Thames, Reading, Newbury, Bath, Bristol, Devizes, Bradford on Avon, Oxford, Lechlade, Banbury, Stourbridge, Chester.

Highlights of the year: St Paul's Cathedral, Natural History Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, Science Museum, Windsor Castle and city tour, Bath City Tour, Bristol Docks, RAF Uxbridge (where Graham and I met), Camden Market, Wadworth Brewery Devizes and their shire horses, Caen Hill Lock Flight on Kennet and Avon Canal, Annual Festival Stourbridge, Little Venice Film Shoot and met George Alagiah, met Prunella Scales and Timothy West at the Hatton Lock Flight. Also watched Dermot O'Leary filming in Camden, Oxford City Tour and visited the Pitt Rivers Museum inside the Oxford Natural History Museum.

Author: Jean Beven