Boat living can be especially claustrophobic amid a pandemic, but it also offers the U.K.'s estimated 15,000 boat-dwellers an escape from city life. 'As it turned out,' one says, 'living on a boat, it's kind of the ideal way to have to isolate.'
Before the lockdown began, Paddy Screech moved his boat 20 miles north of London, into the countryside. In a separate boat, he runs a floating bookshop.Before the lockdown began, Paddy Screech moved his boat 20 miles north of London, into the countryside. In a separate boat, he runs a floating bookshop.Boasting an engine and a rudder, Michelle Madsen's home is different than most others' in London.
For Madsen, 38, a poet, theater producer and freelance journalist, it was the charm and the affordability that drew her in.Michelle Madsen, a poet, theater producer and journalist, on her canal boat in East London. Madsen enjoys boat living, but the lockdown at times brought challenges."I felt as if I was just being surrounded by this fug of COVID," she says,"everybody running past, just coughing and spitting and sweating, desperate to beat their personal best.
"I felt as if I was just being surrounded by this fug of COVID," she says,"everybody running past, just coughing and spitting and sweating, desperate to beat their personal best. I felt imprisoned, really."
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