Narrowboats

I love the narrowboats of the UK.  I actually considered living on one (probably after a few glasses of wine), but wisely opted for accommodations not submerged in cold water.  These pictures are from Oxford.  The apartment Niki and I rented in London is on the canal, so hopefully there will be more narrowboat pictures to come.  Here's a brief blurb from Wikipedia.

A narrowboat or narrow boat is a boat of a distinctive design, made to fit the narrow canals of Great Britain.

In the context of British Inland Waterways, "narrow boat" refers to the original working boats built in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries for carrying goods on the narrow canals (where locks and bridge holes would have a maximum width of at least 7 feet (2.1 m); some locks on the Shropshire Union are even smaller). The term is extended to modern "narrowboats" used for recreation and more and more as homes, whose design is an interpretation of the old boats for modern purposes and modern materials.