Canal cruises: Glide through Europe and its tales of the riverbank

Were you one of the half-million viewers glued to the surprise hit television programme, All Aboard: The Canal Trip? Filmed in real time, the two-hour programme followed the Kennet and Avon Canal from a camera fixed to the prow of a narrowboat. It had no presenter or commentary and moved very, very gently. The only sounds were of the lapping water, the occasional whooshing of a filling lock, birdsong and wind rustling the trees. Paddling ducks, walkers on the towpath and passing boats were as action-packed as it got.

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