Messing About On the River ; Andrew Yates Takes His Family On a Narrowboat Through a Wet Wiltshire Weekend - and It Turns Out to Be Fun!

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Andrew Yates takes his family on a narrowboat through a wet Wiltshire weekend - and it turns out to be fun!

What I had in mind was a lazy weekend pootling languorously on a canal banked with cow parsley and swaying poplars, the children and dog scampering along the towpath under dipping swallows, while, on board the boat, we drank in the sun-kissed England of early summer.

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Messing About On the River ; Andrew Yates Takes His Family On a Narrowboat Through a Wet Wiltshire Weekend - and It Turns Out to Be Fun!

What we got were two days of rain driven by winds so strong that swans were hosed at speed down river. The poplars snapped in half, the dog shivered below decks and the children's sodden wa...

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