Voyage of discovery: Why you should buy a houseboat - Telegraph

Voyage of discovery: Why you should buy a houseboat - Telegraph

For Nick and Hannah Cash, the best address in London is not Mayfair, Park Lane or Belgravia, but the River Thames.

Over the past nine years, they’ve lived aboard the Katharine of London, a 90ft houseboat moored at South Dock Marina, near Surrey Quays. A year ago their crew swelled by one, with the arrival of their daughter Liliana.

“It’s such a beautiful way to live,” says Hannah. “We’re in the middle of a capital city, yet we live around ducks and swans and belong to a friendly community of fellow boat-owners. We’d find it really hard now to live in a conventional apartment or house on land.”