I floated silently past all kinds of amazing riverside homes – old manor houses, tiny cottages, boathouses and mysterious creeks, and ogled, like a particularly inquisitive fish, at the secret riches of waterside life.
Gone are the days when the garden was off limits to all but the most inquisitive of future footballers – it's now a public space and, with some inevitability, there's a Costa cup floating in the pond.
This ignorance is often exposed by inquisitive actors in rehearsal rooms.
Today's young people are inquisitive, curious and want their information to be easily digestible, as well as fun.
Unlike most French parks, there is a distinct lack of Gallic order here; in fact, with lakes, open spaces, and its greedy and inquisitive ducks, you could very easily be in a park in any British city.
The body, "emaciated and in very bad condition",was found near the village of Goldhanger on Thursday and marine specialists remain concerned there could be a mass stranding involving the highly social and inquisitive creatures.
This trip does not come cheap, and the mountain is sometimes lost in cloud and ash, but the inquisitive are guaranteed an eerie snapshot of what used to be Montserrat's capital, Plymouth, before it was buried up to its rooftops.
With its 8ft wingspan and massive nests, it is conspicuous and, unlike the notoriously wary golden eagle, an inquisitive animal.
From among the rocks peeped the peculiar inquisitive faces of vizcachas, large golden rodents with long tails.
We speak of it in staunch and isolated reverence, half-afraid, half-inquisitive.
An inquisitive teenager in the 1960s might fret with his parents over the shedding of fleets and factories, but he was much more likely to be lost in Tolkien, CND or the Beatles' new LP.
