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Retirement with No Problem
Hubby Vic and I decided to retire early and spend our retirement living on a narrowboat cruising the Inland Waterways of Britain. This blog is about our boat 'No Problem' and our retirement.
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Sue
Location: England, United KingdomI was lucky enough to retire early from a family business in Portsmouth. Since 2002 continuously cruising the Inland Waterways of England. I am married to a gorgeous fella, Vic, and have two super border collies Lucy and Meg, my girls.
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July 31st, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Hi Sue
We met in march near Lymm. We are back on the canals on our boat Imvubu (Hippo) in Birmingham. WOW – what a city. STUNNING. love your blogs especially when we are back home in South Africa. We are desperate to find out a list of launderettes on the canals. Since we are not live aboard and have no washing machine we depend on finding laudrettes and thought you would be best person to ask.
LOVELY pic of the 4 gorgeous girls.
Mandy Taylor
August 1st, 2010 at 11:20 am
No wonder you’ve had no time lol
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:50 am
!st mate guides will show where launderettes are for where that particular area that the guide covers. Aylesbury Canal Society used to sell a guide for launderettes all over the canal system. Plus ask fellow boaters. I had a spin dryer aboard plus a table top washer on my boat, useful for the smaller things. Cheapest launderettes I ever came across was the one at Skipton and Rugeley. Dearest was the one at Newark which I refused to use because of the price.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Hello Mandy,
Yes I remember our meeting! There are a couple of lists, one you have to pay for and one you don’t…
http://www.ukcanals.net/laundry.html
http://www.aylesburycanal.org.uk/sitechapter.cfm?chapter=8
But of course you can always ‘google’ it… (Altrincham laundrette), that will give you a map with all the closest marked. Hope you enjoy your cruise, and look forward to meeting up with you again
Julie,
I was worn out each evening, by the time they went to bed it was almost 10!
Kate,
Thanks for that, I have just been into Hungerford town and that one is now closed… I used to use that when on the K&A before I got a machine..
August 3rd, 2010 at 7:48 pm
It’s a bugger when a launderette shuts down. When out on my travels and I see a launderette I feel quite chuffed and I don’t need one anymore but it’s nice to know that they are still around.