I'm in my room in Crewe. Watched the end of Evolution, not the world most important film but [pleasantly amusing. After that I channel surfed for a while and came across Canal Boat Diaries by Robbie Cumming on BBC4. The first thing I saw was him going over the Swing Aqueduct on the Bridgewater Canal. I was there in June. Then he went to Leigh where I was last week. Now he's heading for Nantwich which is the town next door to Crewe where I am now.
It's making me pine for a narrow boat holiday.but it's even more expensive than staying in hotels. I'm sure it wasn't so expensive when we did it years ago with the children. Then we generally had a 60 or 70 foot boat and it was distinctly cheaper than spending te same amount of time in mid price hotels. I've just had a quick look at some narrow boat booking sites and they want 1 329 GBP or more for a 49 foot boat for a week. That's ridiculous. Almost 200 GBP per night.
Found another for 940 GBP a week. But that's still over 130 GBP per night.
@turbineman40 This started before COVID. And it's not just part of a general increase in prices, hiring a narrowboat has increased in price much faster than hotel prices have; at least it seems that way to me.
