After narrow-boat cruising five times on the canals of England and Wales, my husband Joe and I decided we were perhaps too old to do it again. Then came new friends Rick and Mary Day, who heard about ...

On a canal boat, you can "step back in time to a slower era", said Paul Miles in The Telegraph. There are over 5,000 miles of inland waterways in the UK, snaking through some of the country's most ...

'Stream in the sky': Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales carries the Llangollen Canal in an iron trough 125ft above the River Dee On May 8, a flotilla of some 30 narrowboats will cruise along the Thames in ...

More people are calling England’s canals — and the narrow boats used to navigate them — home as remote work options in the pandemic’s wake make a mobile lifestyle more possible. By Megan Specia LITTLE ...

Family holidays are notorious for hidden extras. You think you’ve bagged a great value break, but once you’ve got home and totted up how much more you spent on occupying the children, you wish you ...

LITTLE BOURTON, EnglandLITTLE BOURTON, England — On a damp June afternoon, a floating home bobbed gently on the Oxford Canal, where it was moored just outside the village of Little Bourton, a blip on ...

It’s Alice’s Day in Oxford, England. A winged griffin is playing a ukulele on Broad Street, awaiting the arrival of the Red Queen. At the nearby Bodleian Library, a caterpillar dispenses nutritional ...

Annemarie Uren and Kath Hopkins have lived on a narrowboat for four years, traveling through the UK's canal system. The coronavirus pandemic has put the couple's journey on hold. Besides their kitchen ...

LITTLE BOURTON, England — On a damp June afternoon, a floating home bobbed gently on the Oxford Canal, where it was moored just outside the village of Little Bourton, a blip on the map with just one ...