Dave and Val Taylor: We left our rural setting in mid-Devon and began our journey around the British waterways system on 27th March 2007, starting from bWheelton/b in Lancashire, where our narrowboat 'Zindagi' was built by Classic Narrowboats. b..../b The countryside was gradually getting more rugged as the locks took us bhigher/b up the Pennine foothills. . . and David & Julie were rapidly getting into canal boating, learning to operate the locks and the boat. ...