{"id":1277,"date":"2020-06-24T07:17:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T07:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.britain-afloat.co.uk\/?page_id=1277"},"modified":"2020-07-02T11:21:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T11:21:02","slug":"barge-holidays-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.britain-afloat.co.uk\/barge-holidays-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s Canals and Waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-ka592arh-86749c92d42fa782e2c67b82683792c2\">\n.avia-section.av-ka592arh-86749c92d42fa782e2c67b82683792c2 .av-section-color-overlay{\nopacity:0.5;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/www.britain-afloat.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold\/images\/background-images\/linen-for-light-background.png);\nbackground-repeat:repeat;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-ka592arh-86749c92d42fa782e2c67b82683792c2 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll av-section-color-overlay-active container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class=\"av-section-color-overlay-wrap\"><div class=\"av-section-color-overlay\"><\/div><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1277'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-gfe0g-5d4734caf58dc80031d98841b081c571\">\n.flex_column.av-gfe0g-5d4734caf58dc80031d98841b081c571{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-gfe0g-5d4734caf58dc80031d98841b081c571 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-brsu0-7660b447f69bcba104f77fd9321caefa'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1 align=\"left\">Boating holidays in Scotland<\/h1>\n<p align=\"left\">Barge holidays in Scotland provide a wide variety of boating opportunities, from coastal charter to serene inland navigations.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>The Millennium Link<\/strong>\u00a0provides the ability to navigate across Central Scotland for the first time in nearly thirty years. This is the result of the complete restoration of the Forth and Clyde canal and the Union Canal, which run from Edinburgh to Glasgow.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hireboat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for availability<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span class=\"navbardivide\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.britain-afloat.co.uk\/images\/Falkirk%20Wheel_2.jpg\" alt=\"barge holidays in Scotland\" width=\"440\" height=\"295\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Barge holidays in Scotland<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">These newly restored lowland canals give visitors an astonishing new boating opportunity where you can travel from Edinburgh to Glasgow in your own self-drive barge or canal boat. 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