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Background information for those new to Canal Holidays, what to expect, how to organise it yourself, types of holiday, skills needed and canal pubs!

Welcome to Canal Junction and canal holidays.

A canal holiday is the ideal way to get away from it all, leave workplace worries behind and enjoy yourself in beautiful and interesting surroundings, discovering the countryside behind the hedgerows. With a family group or a group of friends you can find real quality time on the canals to enjoy each others company, if you are on your own you can enjoy new friendships.

More and more visitors to the UK are also discovering the delights of UK Canal Holidays, amazed to find 2000 miles of leisure waterways still weaving their unhurried way through a two centuries old landscape, rich in customs and culture, natural beauty and history, engineering marvels and a unique folk art.

We've put together some background information to help you start exploring this new landscape. Enjoy!!

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	Narrowboat hire firms
	Narrow boat holiday FAQs
	Canal maps & guides
	Canal boat holiday routes
	Canal holiday FAQs
	Boating holiday skills
	Holiday hire boats
	Inland waterways FAQs
	Hotelboat cruises
	Late booking canal holidays
	Dayboats, trips, attractions
	BoatSeeker search

	How to pick your canal holiday, choose your canal route, find the right narrowboat and book with the best canal company.			What canal boating holiday skills do you need to master to take charge of your own self drive hire boat, and all about a hotel boat holiday.
	Narrow boat holiday hire, who enjoys it most, what to expect and how to organise it yourself.			Canal Locks are probably one of the scariest features of canals for new boaters, but with good instruction and practice you may even come to love them!
	Self drive canalboat holiday hire is the most popular canal holiday. We tell you what to expect on your holiday hire boat and what to look for.			Building the canals brought about major changes to the way people lived. There's lots of heritage & history to see if you know where to look.
	Many people prefer to be looked after on holiday, so we tell you all about all inclusive skippered Hotel Boat Cruises.			What sort of people are today's canal people, and (a little tongue in cheek) things that you might talk to them about!
	We answer questions that Overseas visitors ask about British inland waterways holidays.			Castles & Follies. Britain is full of historic buildings, we list some of the ancient buildings that can be seen or visited from the canal.
	We have cruising guides for the most popular routes. Our canal boat holiday hire route selector helps you find the canal that suits you.			You can't visit the canals without sampling some traditional canal pubs! 'Public houses' all along the canals quench boatmen's' thirsts.

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