Thanks so much for your reply to my post. Please forgive me, I don't know my way around Europe at all and am completely ignorant of the canal system and your location. This will be my first trip! But the thought of meeting boaters like yourselves makes me very grateful indeed. So I'll look your location on a map and would very much like to take you up on your offer to meet and talk. As for putting me up - no worries. I'll find accommodation I'm sure. The important thing is that I'm able to meet and learn, as I plan on doing what you did last Christmas - this coming Christmas.
Unfortunately, as I'm still in the "planning the exit phase", I'll have only one month in Europe. I'll be in Scotland for the first 2 weeks, the UK the week Aug 3-10 thereabouts, then probably up to Amsterdam at the tail end just before returning to Hawaii 8/20. Would you be able to hook up Aug 3/4? Again, I appreciate your offer to assist. I remember when I was a ocean cruiser, taking the time to talk to wannabes. This time I'm the wannabe :0) Cheers Herlinda ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 6, 2006 9:06 pm Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Grumpy old people on Narrow Boats To: [email protected] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > My name is Herlinda. I'm an experienced woman ocean cruiser, > trying to > > break into the world of canal boat life. (What do you folks who live > > on canal boats call yourselves? We ocean going folks call > > ourselves "cruisers".) > > We call ourselves "boaters". > > > Would you be so kind as to possibly direct me to where/who I might > > contact for a non-commercial introduction into the life of > narrowboat> life? I have lived aboard for many years on a monohull > in the Pacific > > so I know better than to whine and can pay my own way and then some. > > Wendy and I changed from being holiday boaters to being live- > aboard > continuous cruisers just before last Christmas. We'd be happy to > answer any > questions you have. We plan to spend most of this summer of the > River > Thames and the Kennet & Avon Canal and would be happy to meet up > with you. > Depending on when you're in the UK we mahy or may not have a spare > berth > (various friends will be boating with us at different times) for > you to stay > for a night or two. > > We'll definitely be at the Inland Waterways Associations National > Festival > (last weekend in August at Beale Park, on the Thames not far from > Reading)which would be a good place for you to find out a lot > about inland > boating in the UK. > > Mike Stevens > nb Felis Catus III - currently at Enfield > web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk > > No man is an island. So is Man. > > > > A parting thought...I live in Hawaii and have a house on a glorious > > beach. If someone were to want to trade hosting....I'd be open for > > that. website link for house info: http://www.vrbo.com/92758 > > > > Aloha! Hope to hear from you :0) > > Herlinda Lopez > > Waimanalo HI USA > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Judy Voets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Thursday, July 6, 2006 7:43 am > > Subject: [canals-list] Re: Grumpy old people on Narrow Boats > > To: [email protected] > > > >> The grumpiest reads the San Francisco Chronicle ... ;-} > >> > >> Stan > >> > >>> --- In [email protected], "Nigel Stanley" > >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On 26/06/06, Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > Apart from Terry on Arun most of the people on passing boats > >>>> seemed to be > well in their 60's on highly polished and > gleaming>>>> narrow boats and grumpy > with it. > >>>> > >>>> > Has this now become the "norm" ? > >>>> > > >>>> > Whatever happened to having a good time boating? > >>>> > >>>> > Julian > >>>> > Who although he is over 50 still believes he is in his 30's > >>>> > >>>> We live in an increasingly privatised, suspicious world. > It's not > >>>> surprising that it also affects the cut. > >>>> > >>>> I always try and see what newspaper such people have on their > >> boat.>> I'm nearly always right! > >>> > >>> Which one(s) do the Grumpiest read? > >>> What about those who (like me) don't read papers? > >>> > >>> Regards > >>> > >>> John Watson > >>> nb Tam Lin > >>> > >>> Not sure how old he should be, but its certainly not as old as he > >>> feels!> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Yahoo! Groups Links > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Judy & Stan Voets, POB 103, San Geronimo, CA 94963 > >> Tel: 415.488.0985 > >> You may never know what results come from your action, > >> But if you do nothing, there will be no results - Gandhi > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check > > out the enhanced email design. > > http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/ygtolB/TM > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---~-> > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/ygtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
