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Our week-long narrowboat adventure from Whitchurch in Shropshire to Chester began when we stepped aboard Inca Wren, a 48ft narrowboat owned by ABC Boat Hire at Whitchurch Marina.
We travelled as light as possible except for food stores, given the lack of shopping opportunities on our route. Indeed the engineer, who watched us curiously as we unloaded our cars, may have thought we were preparing for a round-the-world trip, such were the number of boxes, bottles and bags of consumables.
He kept a beady eye on us as we edged our way toward the winding hole to turn the boat around, but at last
