Tuesday 27th to Friday 30th June 2017 First thing Tuesday I commandeered a fellow boater to help me take Shangri La up through the Ecluse St Jean-de-Losne and to the H2O slipway. I am sure I could have done it alone, but discretion is always best, particularly...
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...
2015 European waterway cruise – Belgium – Liege to Namur via Huy On the River Meuse – Belgium At Liege, the Albert Canal merges with the River Meuse. We would now stay on the Meuse until Givet at the French border, where the river becomes canalized....
2015 European waterway cruise – Belgium – Antwerp Antwerp – Town Hall At the end of the last post we’d just crossed the border into Belgium at the Port of Antwerp. My first impressions of Belgium were somewhat marred by continuing communication...
2015 European Waterway Cruise – The plan comes together. Flags flying – raring to go I love it when a plan comes together! Our travel from UK to Zwartsluis went exactly to plan and we arrived back on board Shangri-La at midday on Thursday 16th July. There...
2015 waterway cruise update – improvements and planning Shangri La wintered in Zwartsluis From nothing happening to a sudden flurry of activity! Time for an update on what is happening ahead of our 2015 cruise. At least the plan hasn’t changed...
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.