Bart's Blog

The Bartlett Diaries on Narrowboat Hang Loose

Menu
  • About Me
  • Contact Me
  • Blog Posts
    • Road Trip to Valencia
    • Hello Venice
    • Venice – Day 2
    • Still loving Venice – Day 3
    • Venice – Day 4
    • Bye Bye Venice – Sad to Leave You
    • Greek Temples at Paestum
    • Water Street, Campagna, Italy
    • Paestum, Cilento Coast, Italy
    • Salerno, Cilento Coast, Italy
    • Pompeii and Herculaneum
    • Amalfi Coast
    • Gorgeous New Family Members – February 2018
    • Hair Cut day for Tilly
    • Girly Holiday in Portugal – Sept 2017
    • Narrowboat Holiday
    • Kedleston Hall Trail Run
    • Best Run in Ages
    • Running PB
    • Spa Day with my Little Chick
    • Owl House Day Spa
    • Camping in the Peak District and Cromer
    • Camping – Hardhurst Farm, Bamford, Peak District
    • Peak District Walk A Circuit from Longnor
    • Peak District Walk from Leek Around Tittesworth Reservoir
    • Pub Walks in the Peak District, Wetton
    • Sunday Morning Stroll
    • Walks in Derby Swarkestone Circular Walk
    • Walks in the Peak District, Bretton
    • Walks in the Peak District, Chatsworth House
    • Walks in the Peak District, Churnet Valley
    • Walks in the Peak District, Dovedale to Milldale
    • Walks in the Peak District, Kinder
    • Walks in the Peak District, Mam Tor
    • Weekend in Bath
    • Cromford Canal and Stannage Edge with Alfieboy – 2017
Menu
Narrowboat Dreams

Narrowboat Dreams!

Posted on January 1, 2019January 1, 2019 by Steph

Our Narrowboat Dreams

Our dream for a long time has been to own and live on a narrowboat. We have been on Narrowboat holidays for many years – the latest of which you can read about here.

Narrowboat Dreams
Our last narrowboat holiday

We have done loads and loads of research – especially my husband – read endless copies of Canal Boat, joined Facebook groups and been to  Crick Boat Show.    Paul has spent hours drawing plans and researching batteries, inverters and lots of other stuff that I don’t have much of a clue about and I even have a board on Pinterest called Narrowboat Dreams that was probably my first ever board on there when I was literally just looking for ideas and had not ever even dreamed of doing a blog!

Anyway Paul has now retired so hopefully our Narrowboat Dreams will soon become a reality – very exciting – and a little scary!

We are now looking for our new home – it may turn out that we have one built but if we find a used boat that ticks all the boxes then we will go for that.

I think many of my posts may now be updates on our progress as I really want to keep a record of our progress just like I do with our walks – it’s so easy to forget things and even now I look back at blog posts and it’s lovely to see the many walks we’ve been on and the fantastic holiday we had in Venice and Paestum this year.

So here goes – New Year – new adventures – here’s to Narrowboat Dreams hopefully coming true 🍺😊

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

8 thoughts on “Narrowboat Dreams!”

  1. Sue says:
    January 3, 2019 at 2:37 pm

    That sounds so exciting! I used to work with a couple who lived on a narrowboat, the guy used to tell me about it and how he had to have his ‘bottom blacked’ as he called it! I think that was something to do with having the bottom of the narrowboat painted.
    It has crossed my mind of selling up and living on one, but I wouldn’t know what to do or where to start and I’m not sure it would work with our cat and dog who don’t get on.

    Reply
    1. Steph says:
      January 3, 2019 at 4:13 pm

      We are so excited- yes lol it is having the bottom of the boat painted x

      Reply
  2. Michelle says:
    January 5, 2019 at 9:04 am

    How exciting and what a fantastic idea!! Certainly something very different. Good on you that’s great 😀

    Reply
    1. Steph says:
      January 5, 2019 at 9:13 am

      😊 thank you – very exciting times xx

      Reply
  3. Diane Worthington says:
    January 7, 2019 at 8:43 am

    Good luck with your search. We have been living our narrowboat dream for 5 months now and are more in love with it every day!

    Reply
    1. Steph says:
      January 7, 2019 at 8:55 am

      Thank you so much Diane – good news may be here very soon 😊

      Reply
  4. Kaye says:
    January 7, 2019 at 11:34 am

    That sounds exciting and scary all at once (bit like having your first child!) You have an idea of what you think it will be like, and turns out to be slightly different. I wish you the best of luck on your new adventure.

    Reply
    1. Steph says:
      January 7, 2019 at 2:02 pm

      Thank you so much – we’re so excited – hopefully a new post will be up very soon with an update 😆

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recent Posts

  • Maiden Voyage on Narrowboat Hang Loose
  • Narrowboat Dream Come True
  • Circular Walk in Derbyshire
  • Narrowboat Dreams!
  • The Pentrich Revolution Trail

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 106 other subscribers.

Categories

  • Adventure
  • Camping
  • Chatsworth
  • Christmas
  • Cromford Canal
  • Dovedale
  • Family
  • Food
  • Health & Fitness
  • Hiking
  • Holiday
  • Italy
  • Lifestyle
  • Narrowboat
  • Owl House Day Spa
  • Peak District
  • Pet
  • Portugal
  • Running
  • Spa
  • Travel
  • Travel Inspiration
  • Vacation
  • Walking
  • Weekend Break

Archives

  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • June 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
© 2019 Bart's Blog | Theme by Superb WordPress Themes