Thursday, June 23, 2011

A morning in west byfleet: the Basingstoke Canal

We are taking it easy on day 2 to rest my back for our greater London trips planned for the next few days. Luckily, west byfleet has some attractions of its own. Near Sue's house there is a very long canal which must have been used for shipping a long time ago, back in the days when barges were towed by oxen or other 4-legged animals.  Now it's just a (very pretty) hiking (and biking) path. With one very strange addition: people live on parts of the canal. The picture pretty much tells it all. Some of these boats look like they have been moored here for 20 or more years.

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