We were pretty determined to spend New Years Eve out on the canal rather than in our marina berth as our friends aboard narrowboat 'Pride of Nuffield' had come down this way for the Christmas period. Temperatures overnight had plummeted and the canal was frozen and worse still was that the marina itself had also frozen too and it seemed a lot thicker than the canal was. By lunchtime it was not looking any better so we made the call to give it a go and tentatively nudge forward out of our berth to see just how bad it was. Once I had started going forward I thought 'I'm not stopping now, lets just go for it!'. Turning was the hardest part but with a bit of forward and backing we broke enough ice to get out and onto the mainline canal.
We only traveled around 30 or so minutes north from Gayton towards Bugbrooke but we had already talked about a spot that would be good which gives plenty of sunshine for our solar panels (if it's actually sunny), a TV signal and internet - what more do we need apart from beer and wine, and yes we have plenty of that on-board too!

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