This is the full-length-version account of The Booze Cruise canal boating holiday. It does contain frequent strong language.
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26th June 1998; 1230 words; no photographs.
Staying at Mark's; World Cup 98; Mary Poppins medley; insomnia.
27th June 1998; 4,197 words; 17 photographs.
Sutton to Victoria; London to Birmingham; starting the cruise; Rizwan's bedcover.
28th June 1998; 3,576 words; 15 photographs.
Lazy Sunday afternoon; dinner in Worcester; John trashing Diglis Basin; night photography.
29th June 1998; 4,428 words; 14 photographs.
Cruising on the River Severn; trashing the private jetty; the Co-Op Supermarket experience; pizzas for tea.
30th June 1998; 2,954 words; 9 photographs.
Finbar-induced flooding; abandoning Mike and John; the race to see World Cup 98; depression and loss.
1st July 1998; 2,801 words; 5 photographs.
Stop in Compton; long hard canal into Wolverhampton; death of a dustbin; loud at the pub.
2nd July 1998; 5,730 words; 12 photographs.
Nosy construction workers; popular in Birmingham; thrown out of the pub; the Little Green Man.
3rd July 1998; 3,774 words; 12 photographs.
Washing the boat; Wast Hill Tunnel; theft of a pub umbrella; breach of the peace in Alvechurch.
4th July 1998; 3,326 words; 13 photographs.
Back to where it started; afternoon in Birmingham; returning to London; end of the holiday.
17th July 1998; 380 words; 3 photographs.
Drinking in Sutton with Mark, Ben, Finbar and Mike.
Whole document: 32,396 words; 100 photographs; image every 8 paragraphs.