![Floating island. The stern of a narrowboat has a life ring hanging from the tiller and a large rope to protect the rudder behind. A mass of rushes and water weed is being towed along behind.](https://bartimaeus.blether.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_20240726_153911-300x147.jpg)
Despite slow progress, we don’t hang around.
Despite slow progress, we don’t hang around.
Back to narrower water and self operated locks. We’ll stay here for a while and socialise.
Sometimes things take a long time to happen.
Travelling the tidal Trent, just the two of us.
Lots of driving and lots of things to see flying past.
We need to get our mileage up just as the temperature goes up too.
Mud and weeds stop play.
We’ve navigated canals, river and estuaries before. Now for something new.
We reach the end of our navigation and discover more about people who sailed much further from home.
Dungeons and dragons and death sentences at Lincoln castle