Narrow Dog To Carcassonne

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His voyage is illustrated by a succession of little vignettes of a paragraph or two, and the intervening time and place passes un-noted. When I woke up the next morning, and I wished I had not woken up the next morning, I realized that I had agreed to sail an inland boat across the English Channel, roped up to a madman.

Terry Darlington was brought up in Pembroke Dock during the war, between a Sunderland flying boat base and an oil terminal. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance.

You meet the French nobody meets – poets, captains, historians, drunks, bargees, men with guns, scholars, madmen – they all want to know the people on the painted boat and their narrow dog.

Like Estuary ( reviewed earlier) I sort of enjoyed this book, but there were significant qualifications. The author is a Welshman with a very good turn of phrase, and the marital effects of living in a small space while fighting the recalcitrant properties of water bring welcome chuckles. We could bore ourselves to death, drink ourselves to death, or have a bit of an adventure…’ When they retired, Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrow boat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean, together with their whippet Jim.

I feel I am travelling with them all, the humorous comments are so clever, yet so simple, just a couple of words sometimes.

In the morning the secretary could not remember what had been decided, or indeed where he was, so to be on the safe side he chose the narrowest gauge mentioned in his notes, which was seven feet.You'll meet the French nobody meets--poets, captains, scholars, madmen; they all want to know the couple on the painted boat and their narrow dog. This isn't classic EngLit but it is innovative - or at least it appears to be in my view as I am not a student of literature. So a good book, a good read, very much recommended, in the mould of the other classics mentioned here, but not quite achieving the same status. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Alas, my reader’s guilt won out and I decided to finish the book and hope beyond reason that it might have a spectacular ending.