The Voyages of the Princess Matilda Audiobook (Free)

‘Tim and I both understood we had done something actually stupid. We had underestimated the risk involved in going out to ocean. We’d no radio, compass, lifestyle raft or flares. In other words, we were several idiots.’

This is the story of Shane and Timothy Spall and their Dutch barge The Princess Matilda. After a summertime over the Thames they leave to ocean with just a street atlas and a vast quantity of ignorance – and it is absolutely terrifying!

On the travels, recollections are triggered of about The Voyages from the Princess Matilda childhood trips to the seaside, but also of newer times. Ten years before, Tim have been diagnosed with acute leukaemia and was given only times to live.

Stunned at how life can complete you by they made the decision that when, and if, Tim improved, they would purchase a boat.

As Tim and Shane explore the coast from the Medway to Cornwall, ultimately they begin to question, could they produce it out of Britain altogether? Could Matilda make it to … Wales?!

Overtaking five years, The Voyages of The Princess Matilda can be a epic,charting a very personal, shifting and uplifting tale of an everyday couple’s experience around their much loved homeland.