>>2143082I fucking love our canals here in England, I grew up in a town with one running through with a cyclable towpath running for miles and miles in either direction. The kinds of people who live on the narrowboats tend to be hippies/gypsies who want to live an alternative lifestyle, but also lots of normal people, mixed with families having weekend holidays, then in the summer months a small but noticeable influx of 'lads on tour' from the cities doing Stags, drinking shitloads and listening to house music dancing on top of the barge as it chugs along at 5mph. Pretty funny really. Great places to have a cheeky spliff as well, and normally there's a cute country pub with a beer garden every 5 miles miles or so. And occasionally some impressive architecture from ~1800 (aqueducts and suchlike). I love our beautiful canals.