--- In [email protected], Trevor <listsandst...@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Terry,
>
> It has been a day of strange co-incidences today - only this evening I
> was looking at Caen and thinking 'Eek, 'ow the 'eck am I going to manage
> that!' (I allus lose my aitches when I gets meself hexcited) and so I
> would really like to take you up on that, very kind offer, as I was
> aiming to meander slowly west out of Newbury from the beginning of July.
>
> It would also be good to see the redoubtable 'Brian' at last, having
> been following the routes of 'Harnser' for so long. [As long as he
> doesn't get so embarrassed, by a not-very-shiny-at-the-moment nb
> bouncing off the banks behind him, that he dives into the nearest reed
> bed:) ]
>
> Whilst I'm here - I've recently bought a 'GEO' map for the K&A - but
> unfortunately I have found the print is rather too small for comfort -
> especially where the cartographers have attempted to put too much detail
> into too small a space. The scale is 1:53,750 - which is, very roughly,
> a little over an inch and a quarter to the mile - and I wondered whether
> the Nicholson's maps use a larger scale or are, in general terms,
> considered to be better.
>
> Do folk here have any preferred canal maps, or map books, which they
> could recommend perhaps - and I'm not 'just' thinking of the K&A, which
> is where I am starting from, but in more general terms across England
> and Wales.
>
> What do you normally use?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Trevor
I use carole's First mate guides. www.canalmate.co.uk
Sue
