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Open Eye: Messing about in boats From The Vice-Chancellor; Our little excursion into the wilderness park was brought into stark perspective when my wife broke her leg portaging on The Pig

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19990907
Author:Sir John Daniel

We each have our preferred modes of recreation. Kenneth Grahame spoke for me when he wrote, in the first chapter of The Wind in the Willows, that "there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats". This summer I had two boating holidays: a week cruising on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal followed by a week canoeing in the Killarney Wilderness Park in northern Ontario.

They were different experiences. On the canal the 60-ft steel narrow- boat could carry plenty of food and drink and its well- appointed kitchen allowed considerable gastronomic ...

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