Canal du Rhone au Rijn – St Jean-de-Losne to Dole – Friday 12th August Finally, we left St. Jean-de-Losne and on our way. After a leisurely start to the day, we left the H2O marina around 10.00 am. Compared to when I was here a couple of months ago, during...
Shangri La in St Jean-de-Losne For waterway wanderers, we did a lot of trains today! King’s Cross St Pancras Overground from Tolworth to Vauxhall, Underground to King’s Cross St Pancras, Eurostar to Paris Gare du Nord, RER to Gare de Lyon, SCNF to...
Shangri La back in water at St Jean-de-Losne Shangri La in the water again – I like it when a plan comes together! Back from my 2 week stint in St Jean-de-Losne, and Shangri La is back in the water, sporting her new underwater coating, and a brand new generator....
Boats at St Jean-de-Losne Hurry up and wait! The tenet of a mariner’s existence I seem to be doing a lot of that lately – hanging around St Jean-de-Losne, waiting for the weather or something to happen. Fast flowing River Saone! The weather...
Start of the 2016 European Waterway Cruising Season Lock at St Jean-de-Losne Well here I am, beginning of June, in a rather chilly and rainy St Jean-de-Losne! It has been a strange year so far – my work contract fraught with delays to it’s start time....
Barging in France – Paris Shangri La in 2014 – on the River Amstel It has been quite a trip: 1274 kilometres, passing through 3 countries. We negotiated 299 locks, up and down the mountains, and going through 5 tunnels, the longest being 5 km and in the...
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.