Well, I never thought I would be writing a post about Canals! However, I recently heard about LOOK’s ‘What Floats Your Boat’ campaign. This campaign highlights what LOOK believe to be the top 5 canals in Britain, but they are asking for our views. Asking if we would have any different canals in the top 5.
We would! The Kennet and Avon Canal runs through our local town and we love to spend time there. It runs from Bristol to Reading, but the section which we frequent is at Newbury. If Mr Hubby is with us we walk from the town out into the countryside, taking in all the colour barges and sometimes wishing we could float away on one for a week or so. It is so peaceful and, as a family who loves to be near water, a perfect walk for us.
When Mr Hubby is at work, leaving Baby and I to fly solo, we often walk through the section which weaves itself through the town.
Our favourite part is the Wharf, where there is the cutest tea room and lots of super friendly swans and ducks to feed.
I love the contrast of the beautiful countryside walks changing into a more vibrant town section, where you can sit, feed the wildlife and spend time people watching.
You also get to see beauties like this one! What more could you want?
Do you have a canal near you? Do you like canal side walks?
Disclosure: This is a collaborative post.
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I have to confess that I’ve never really visited a canal, although after seeing your pictures I’m quite envious that you have easy access to one.
Lovely photos, we don’t actually have a canal near us. But i always remember going to one near my grandparents in Norfolk which was lovely x
Lovely pics, we have a gorgeous river near us that we love to wonder along!
Ooo, I don’t think I have any canals near me, but how picturesque are your photos! Especially the one with the swan.
Yes, I love walking alongside a canal (or a river!). We went for a holiday on a canal boat twice when I was growing up and I still have such fond memories of it too.
Like you I love to be near water and have lived beside rivers (the Thames and the Trent in England, and the Barrow in Ireland), canals (the Trent and Mersey), seas (Portsmouth) and now on the shores of Lake Ontario in Canada.
I do have a fond memory of a walk alongside the Manchester Ship Canal where it passes through Warrington, with an old but long absent friend, and my husband. There’s something intimate and honest about an amble along a tow-path isn’t there?
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It is so peaceful x
I grew up next to a canal, so I have fond memories there!
Not something we as a family are into but does look interesting .x
Does this canal go through Bath? I was there the other day and stayed next to a beautiful canal
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Not sure, it runs from Bristol to Reading, I think it might. x
I do love the Canal by Great Barr (I think it is) in Birmingham – I have many a fond childhood memory walking along there.
When we lived in Berkshire we lived right beside a lock on the Thames. It was before children, but my dad used to love to walk and watch the canal boats
The Kennet and Avon is a lovely canal – we had a narrowboat holiday on it a few years back. I love canals – we live quite close to the Grand Union Canal – not close enough to walk along the towpath regularly but every so often I go and show the girls the narrowboats. Maybe one day we’ll have another boating holiday as a family.
Ive just wrote about our canal walk on my blog. I love it I like looking at the houses that back onto the canal