Canals were the transport arteries of the industrial revolution, but today they offer the opportunity to take a lower carbon […]
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Top 10 tips for narrowboat novices
Spring is here and Britain’s beautiful canal network offers over 2,000 miles of waterways to explore. If you’ve ever fancied […]
Top 6 Bank Holiday Boating Breaks
To celebrate the approaching Spring Bank Holiday Weekend, we’ve put together our top six short break narrowboat holidays: Visit Georgian […]
Drifters’ Top 12 places to hire a boat for the day
Day boat hire on the canals offers the chance to enjoy a fun day out on the water, nourished by […]
Top 8 Spring breaks
Britain’s beautiful inland waterways are a great place to visit at Spring time, when the countryside is bursting into new […]
Top 10 Canal Events for 2019
Britain’s canals and rivers host hundreds of exciting events each year, bringing people to the waterways and celebrating the things […]
9 new narrowboats for 2019
As part of our preparations for the new boating season, Drifters is adding dozens of new canal boats to its […]
Drifters to open new base at Whixall
From 5 April 2019, Drifters member Anglo Welsh Waterway Holidays will begin offering narrowboat hire from Whixall Marina, on the […]
Celebrate Mother’s Day Afloat
This year Mothering Sunday coincides with the start of British Summer Time (Sunday 31 March 2019), so what better way […]