Adrift In Caledonia
One clear morning in May, Nick Thorpe left his Edinburgh flat, ducked off the commuter route and hitched a ride aboard a little white canal boat, heading west towards the sea. It was the first mutinous step in a delightful boat-hopping odyssey that would take him 2500 miles through Scotland''s canals, lochs and coastal waters, from the industrial Clyde to the scattered islands of Viking Shetland.
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One clear morning in May, Nick Thorpe left his Edinburgh flat, ducked off the commuter route and hitched a ride aboard a little white canal boat, heading west towards the sea. It was the first mutinous step in a delightful boat-hopping odyssey that would take him 2500 miles through Scotland''s canals, lochs and coastal waters, from the industrial Clyde to the scattered islands of Viking Shetland.
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