Life is better on a boat

“There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” ~ Kenneth Grahame

Tree Swift- 4 berth deluxe hireboat- has joined the Fleet operating out of Whitchurch on the Llangollen Canal in Shropshire

***Rufous Wren in the wet dock at Alvechurch , just prior to completion***

We have recently invested in two new 4 berth, 49 foot, narrowboats for the 2024 season. Tree Swift is operating out of ABC Whitchurch in Shropshire, and Rufous Wren sails from ABC Nantwich in Cheshire

Three decades of experience in UK Boating Tourism

I have extensive experience of a wide range of types of tourism in the UK ; including more than 25 years running inland boating holiday companies.

Award winning Hotelboat Operator

Deluxe hireboat fleet

Trip Boats and Moorings

Self Catering Accomodation

Hotel Management at 3, 4 and 5 Star levels

William & Megan James

Canal Journey

An Inland Voyage

by Robert Louis Stevenson

The chimney smokes for dinner as you go along; the banks of the canal slowly unroll their scenery to contemplative eyes; the barge floats by great forests and through great cities with their public buildings and their lamps at night; and for the bargee, in his floating home, “travelling abed,” it is merely as if he were listening to another man’s story or turning the leaves of a picture book in which he had no concern. He may take his afternoon walk in some foreign country on the banks of the canal, and then come home to dinner at his own fireside. (1878)

Bespoke Tourism Consultancy Services

Bespoke Tourism Consultancy
Inland Waterway Projects a speciality
Feasibility studies
Product development and operational advice
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More Canals than Venice!

With a population of over a million and a size of over 10 miles across Birmingham dwarfs the Italian city state of Venice, so comparisons of canal length are not very helpful!

However just as Venice developed as a renaissance powerhouse because of its trade and transport links, so Birmingham grew rapidly from the mid eighteenth century because of its canal networks.

The first canal was built in 1768 and at one time the Birmingham Canal Navigations had about 160 miles of canal across its network.

Canals are now a popular tourist attraction, carrying recreational and residential boats across the region.

Packed with a wealth of history, arts and culture, this vibrant city was a global manufacturing powerhouse, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and was known in the Victorian era as the ‘Workshop of the World’.