A good place to find these locations is on Google maps. I don't seem to be able to get a firm link on Google maps to link each of these names, but it's pretty easy to use Google to search for them. We'll be in England most of the time, with a two-day trip to Wales just before we head back to the airport, and we're spending the second week of our trip in Scotland.
Wikipedia seems to give me good links, so I'll use those.
Where I show a link to RCI, if you can't get there somehow, go to http://www.rci.com/RCI/, click the Resort Directory tab, and then enter the resort number in the search box.
April 18 - Leave home
April 19 - Arrive in Manchester
April 20 and 21 - Southport - near Liverpool
April 22 - Chester
April 23 thru 29 - Ellesmere During this week, we'll be the captain (Lauren) and crew (me) of a narrow boat as we sail the canals around Ellesmere.
Here are some interesting links:
English Canals in general. Scroll down until you find Ellesmere - that's where's we're boarding our boat at the Blackwater Meadow Marina. The marina Web site looks like it hasn't been maintained. We'll hope for better maintenance on the boats!!!
We believe our boat will be something like the one shown the Canaltime Priory site. Our boat DOES have an engine. The distinction is that a houseboat doesn't, but a narrowboat does have an engine.
Our boat is a time share exchange through RCI. You don't need to be a member to look it up on RCI - Resort 6985. Click the "Reviews" tab at right of the page to read about other people's experiences.
Wikipedia has a good page about narrowboating.
April 30 and May 1 - York
May 3 through May 8 - Aberfeldy, Scotland This is another great site about Aberfeldy - Judy found it for me last weekend - written by someone who is from there.
We'll be staying at Resort 1585, rented through RCI.
May 9 - Chester
May 10 through 16 - Kingsteignton
We'll be staying at Resort 2718, rented through RCI.
May 17 - Bath
May 18 and 19 - Swansea, Wales
May 20 - Manchester
May 21 - Fly home
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I'm jealous! We hope you're having a good time over there
We arrived safely last night, found our hotel with help from our little Garmin Nuvi (with an added UK map which we purchased last winter), and we are navigating along well so far! It's gently raining, but we're following the example of the Brits by not letting it deter us from enjoying everything British during our stay here!
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