The French seem to have got this right. In my post of 4th December I touched on this when writing about the French lockkeepers and their working hours. Enjoying life appears to be the important bit, and work an inconvenient necessity. Nevertheless, things...
Before I continue raving about France, let me tell your where we went geographically. We started at Joigny on the River Yonne, and headed South, or upstream. Our first overnight stop was at Migennes, where the Canal de Bourgogne flows into the Yonne. Next we stayed a...
Possibly the most enjoyable waterway holiday we have had was the trip on the Nivernaise Canal in France. The main reasons that made it so wonderful were that we were not bound to a hire boat schedule, and we discovered we ablolutely love France. As I mentioned...
We will be starting a one week trip on a narrowboat on the Monmouth and Brecon Canal in Wales next Friday 15th October 2010. In the meantime, here is a picture from our trip last year on the Canal du Midi in France, as we manoeuvred up a set of staircase locks. This...
My love of boats goes back to my early years when I went on holiday with my parents to Knysna in the Cape.
We stayed at a hotel on stilts, and I played in rowing boats and little motor boats on the lagoon.