Frozen start

About 10 days ago, we set off with the narrowboat on our spring/summer London canal adventure. It was a lovely, balmy day – it seemed like the Beast of the East had gone and winter was nearly over. Our first mooring was just past the infamous Islington tunnel.

A week later, temperatures dropped again. Through grim weather we moved our boat from Islington to Haggerston and found a spot near a friendly Spaniard on a boat with a broken down engine.

Friends of ours have kindly taken us in and won’t let us return to the boat until the weather improves.