Just returned from a 10day adventure up the Lea and Stort Navigation in the Sea Mistress. It took us 4days to travel around 30miles! A real exercise in patience. I'd say the trip was pretty much a fifty fifty split between beauty and filth. We passed plenty of nature reserves, clear waters and leafy landscapes to satisfy our urge to escape the city but every town along the way seemed to have been mutilated by the darker side of modernisation. Retail parks, chain pubs, fast stupid cars piloted by thoughtless thugs is what we found at disaster towns like Harlow or Bishops Stortford.
We did manage a sunny swim in a lake and consumed enough cheese and booze to see us through till Christmas. We swiftly worked off the calories as we had to do about a million locks a day. Barging is definitely a working holiday.
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