Narrow Dog To Carcassonne

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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. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. Narrow Dog to Carcassonne” is a 397 page version of Aunt Edna’s slide show of her trip to the Corn Palace.

This book tells how the author, his wife Monica and dog Jim took their narrow boat Phyllis May down the English canal system from Stone to the Thames, across the Channel, through the French, Belgium and then French again canal systems all the way to Carcassonne.I could have had a dog that ate its dinner, a dog that barked and wagged its tail, a normal dog, a dog with fur.

Jim looked out of his kennel, his eyes wide-He begged me Your Honour, Steal my bone; he went down on his hands and knees. At least 3 times in the book Terry and Monica thought they would break their boat beyond repair or die. Then there's the writing style: this should be an easy read, yet too often it isn't, with prose like poetry (or poetry like prose), fantasies and at one point switching to the current tense.The brass plates of doctors and lawyers have a piece of paper with yellowing tape saying that no opinion will be offered until ten to three Thursday fortnight.

But one day we found a boatyard we could trust and soon we sailed away, in shining grey and white and crimson, with primroses on the roof and a brass tunnel light at the bow, and our names on the engine-room in fairground lettering a foot high, and ran into the first bridge. I don't really know any of the places in France so a bot more background information would have made it more enjoyable. Carcassone isn't difficult to get into if you permit yourself the same sense of humour that drove the writing. So, if you are on a plane and reach into that elasticized pocket in the seatback in front of you and find a discarded copy of “Narrow Dog to Carcassonne” don’t be surprised.Her three children have all reproduced themselves, removing doubts about whether she and Terry are the same species.