{"id":5637,"date":"2012-10-24T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/broaden-your-horizons-on-a-narrowboat-holiday-and-save\/"},"modified":"2012-10-24T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T05:01:00","slug":"broaden-your-horizons-on-a-narrowboat-holiday-and-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/10\/broaden-your-horizons-on-a-narrowboat-holiday-and-save\/","title":{"rendered":"Broaden your horizons on a Narrowboat holiday and save"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802736552784166386\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-kqmMWPOMCxY\/UId2Jonf_fI\/AAAAAAAAZzg\/ronPa2mJq-I\/s320\/image004-785235.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Picture yourself gliding along Britain&#8217;s tree-lined waterways in a traditional canal boat; cruise to Shakespeare&#8217;s Stratford upon Avon to soak up the atmosphere or see a play; visit the Roman city of Bath or the historical industrial centres of the Midland or the North. Or cruise the spectacular Llangollen Canal in North Wales, Britain&#8217;s most scenic canal.<\/p>\n<p>Sample a pint of traditional ale and a pub meal beside a canal; explore a museum or marvel at the engineering of the handmade lock systems that allowed boats to climb up and down those rolling green hills transporting goods for more than two centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Narrowboat holidays are ideal for couples, families or groups \u2013 with comfortable cabins and shower\/toilets &#8211; no experience or boat licence required. Self-drive boat hire is available from bases across England, Scotland and Wales for week-long, mid-week or long weekend periods.<\/p>\n<p>Boating holiday specialists Outdoor Travel, based in Bright, Victoria offers a wide range of narrowboats from March to October each year.<\/p>\n<p>There are early booking discounts of up to 20% off these charming narrowboat canal holidays for new reservations for 2013 made before 21 December 2012. \u00a0Book now!<\/p>\n<p>Cost for week-long hire of 2-4 berth canal boat from $740 (normally $925) including hire fees, cooking facilities, linen and towels.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions apply<\/p>\n<p>OUTDOOR TRAVEL Pty Ltd<br \/>The Active Holiday Company<br \/>PO Box 286, Bright, Victoria 3741, Australia<br \/>Tel (03) 57 501 441 \u00a0 Toll free 1800 331 582 \u00a0Fax (03) 57 501020\u00a0 <br \/>Email <a href=\"mailto:info@outdoortravel.com.au\">info@outdoortravel.com.au<\/a><br \/>Website: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.outdoortravel.com.au\/\">http:\/\/www.outdoortravel.com.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture yourself gliding along Britain&#8217;s tree-lined waterways in a traditional canal boat; cruise to Shakespeare&#8217;s Stratford upon Avon to soak up the atmosphere or see a play; visit the Roman city of Bath or the historical industrial centres of the Midland or the North. Or cruise the spectacular Llangollen Canal in North Wales, Britain&#8217;s most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}