What is really the best thing about canal boating, apart from being in a cosy floating shoebox, is being in a boat and looking down on the countryside. And nowhere better than on the Leeds and Liverpool canal above Gargrave, where the canal climbs onto nearly its top level through the Pennines and winds along the contours in a most spectacular fashion.
And you can moor just about anywhere for the night, in the depths of the countryside, far from any roads or rails or airports, andclose to sheep and cows and birds and other noisy nocturnal critters.
