THE END OF OUR JOURNEY - 24 MAY 2007
		On our last day, in really hot sunshine, we moored the boat at Huntington on an old pontoon where a boat yard had gone out of business and started the task of packing up and loading all our belongings into the van Alan's sister had driven up in. I cleaned the boat thoroughly as we worked and by lunchtime we were done and phoned our buyer to tell him we were ready to hand over Jemima into his care. It was an emotional moment to say goodbye and walk away from the boat we had owned since April 2001 and spent five and a half years on as our home cruising the country's waterways. CONCLUSIONS We have had a fantastic journey which we are both so glad we did as it must be the best way to see parts of England that one does not normally see. We stopped at countless little hamlets and country villages in beautiful surroundings and also many towns and cities, seeing them from a different perspective. We have visited as many National Trust properties as we could get to, museums galore and steam beam engines by the dozen. We have been educated by such diversified trades as steel, silk, cars and lace. We have met so many interesting and varied people but were disappointed to only meet one couple in all that time who played bridge with us! The three journeys over the Pennines were probably the ones I enjoyed the most and which had such lovely scenery and were peaceful with hardly any other boats around. We covered approximately 3,250 miles of waterways, went through approximately 1,820 locks, 15 tunnels and 64 various swing or lift bridges.