2015 European waterway trip – Canal de la Marne a la Saone Part 1 St Dizier – France So here we are going up again. The older maps, charts and books call this waterway the Canal de la Marne au Rhin, but somewhere along the line in their wisdom the VNF have...
2015 European waterway trip – Canal de la Marne au Rhin – Part 3 Wild stop near Pargny Bar-le-Duc to Vitry-le-Francois. This last section of the canal we did in 2 days, with an overnight wild stop just outside a tiny place called Pargny sur Saulx....
2015 European waterway trip – Canal de la Marne au Rhin – Part 2 On the Canal de la Marne au Rhin Ligny to Bar-le-Duc. The trip down to Bar-le-Duc was relatively painless. A whole 15 kilometres with 16 locks(dropping 41 metres). Lift bridges near...
2015 European waterway trip – Canal de la Marne au Rhin – Part 1 Shangri La at Ligny-en-Barrois The first part of the Canal de la Marne au Rhin was up a chain of 12 locks, through the Mauvages Tunnel, after which we started to descend again, into the...
2015 European waterway trip – Canal de la Meuse – Last part Verdun – Canal de la Meuse Leaving Verdun, we continued along the Canal de la Meuse, overnighting at a tiny place called St-Mihiel, till we came to the junction with the Canal de la marne au...
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.