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Excess water goes down the weir to bypass the lock
 

Photography on your canal holiday:

Taking a canal boat holiday with us provides photographers a great opportunity to take some really great photographs.

Firstly, because you are in a naturally beautiful environment, there is no additional car travel needed to reach a good spot to take a photo. We all know that early morning is one of the great times for photographs.

On a canal boat you can get out of bed open the door and be taking stunning early morning wildlife shots while still in your slippers. Similarly, on a summer evening you can wait for the magical late sunshine in a beautiful location without having to think about a long drive home. Having a canal boat at your disposal really is a photographers paradise. Read more >

 

Walking Holidays :

If you are looking for walking trips in other parts of the world the Travel Quest trekking and walking holidays section lists both guided and unguided walking breaks, as well as holidays and courses for long distance walks, map reading, winter walking, backpackers hiking trips and walking holidays where your luggage is transported for you each day.

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  • Be amazed by a UK canal holiday
  • Be a considerate boater
  • Best things in life are free
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  • British canal highlights
  • Canal boat basics
  • Canal boating with kids
  • Fishing
  • Ghostly canals
  • Grand union canal
  • Green boating holidays
  • History of canals in britain
  • It is not just a narrowboat holiday
  • Locks - an introduction
  • Long distance canal routes
  • Photography and canal boating
  • Safety
  • Welsh canal holidays
  • Wildlife On The Canals
  • What to take with you on a narrowboat
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    How to operate locks on your canal holiday:

    In the UK just about every inland waterway will have some type of lock and this adds to the fun of travelling on your canal boat holidays. Locks are devices for raising and lowering boats between stretches of water on the canals. All locks are different and require different ways of operating them.

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    Operating the lock on the Llangollen canal
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