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| 28.02.05 SLIPSTREAM SOLD Our share in Slipstream has been sold due to continuing dissatisfaction with Ownerships handling of the regular maintenance of the boat and the way in which we, as shareholders, were treated with comtempt. Sadly the site will not be updated as we have no boat, however I hope one day to write up the remainder of our trips, especially the 'notorious' BCN ice trip which led to our complete lack of faith in Ownerships |
| 26.05.2004 NEW GALLERY The new gallery now has straight photos and you can purchase prints or reproduction rights of any image. |
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| 15.03.03 Added Play Again feature to Slideshows so viewers can let the pictures load while looking elsewhere and then play from beginning |
| 15.03.03 New Photojourneys for Tame Valley, Walsall and Wednesbury Old Canals |
| 15.03.03 Updates to Photojourneys for Trent & Mersey (+13), Coventry (+78), Birmingham & Fazeley (+51) and BCN (+27) |
| 17.12.02 Various bug fixes and uploads | 04.11.02 Site launched |
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| New Gallery - Autumn scenes |
| Trip Report - the 'notorious' BCN ice trip |
| Christmas/New Year trip report - Coventry Basin |
| Autumn weekend trip report - Fradley to Stone and back |
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CanalTravels is a site dedicated to our trips
around the Inland Waterways of Britain aboard our shared ownership
boat Slipstream. We'll share with you our various journeys via trip
reports and photographs, our impressions of some of the places we
have stopped to eat (good and bad!) as well as details of the boat
itself. Hopefully it will inspire you to venture onto the canals
or, if you have your own boat (shared or otherwise), give you a
few ideas on where to venture next.
If you have any questions or comments please
feel free to drop me an email to
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If you've got this far then you
probably have the right browser - you'll need IE 5.0 or later for
everything to work. Netscape 6 will work although some features
will not be available. The site looks best at 1024 x 768 but will
work fine in 800 x 600. If viewing in 800x600 I recommend
that you view the site fullscreen (press F11). The
site is pretty graphics intensive so if you've got broadband you're
laughing, otherwise just be a little patient, you won't find many
canal sites like this one! Read on to see what to expect
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Here you'll find details of our shared-ownership boat with a number of photographs of Slipstream on the cut together with photos of the inside |
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Trip
Reports |
Here we'll describe our journeys aboard Slipstream (and perhaps on other boats that we hired previously) so you will get a taste of what holidaying on the canals is all about. There are a select number of photos in this section but the majority of photos will be in .... | |
Photo
Journeys |
This is somewhat unique as far as I know. As we journey along the canals on different occasions we'll collect together our photographs and arrange them so that they go in order from the beginning of the canal to the end. Some canals will have only a few photos (to begin with) but others will have extensive coverage. You'll find hundreds of photos here presented initially as thumbnails with 12 on a page but every photo is 'clickable' to bring up a larger image. If you are looking for a particular picture you may well find it here |
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Route Plans |
Whenever we go on a trip we take great care in planning so we know what time to start off and roughly when we'll finish the day. Many of you will not wish to be bound by time but we find it convenient to know if we are ahead or behind expectations so we can adjust our day, perhaps stopping off for a longer lunch or pressing on so that we'll have some of the evening left. In this section you'll find our route plans with some notes if we have completed the route. If the plans are any use to you, you can print them out, without our times, as a day per sheet with space to fill in your timings if you wish | |
Eating
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We like to stop at pubs on the way to save too much cooking (and washing up!) on the boat. Some pubs are great, some are good and some are just a one-time experience. You might not agree with everything we say but these notes could point you to a decent evening meal |
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Gallery |
Every once in a while we all take a great photograph and ours will appear here. From this page you have the option of purchasing prints of the images or the rights to reproduce the image itself in any form you wish, details are on the page. Each photo is presented as a framed and matted image but you can select the original image. Thumbnails on the right allow you to select each photo for viewing. Check the INFO panel for details or purchasing Prints or Repro rights. | |
| Credits | Find out here who was responsible for the design and photographs and what software was used to create this site - and get inspired! | |
| Other Sites | Finally some selected links to other sites of interest - only a few but some of the links will get you to many more canal sites |  |
