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....
Shangri-La in Sneek To go to the previous Part 5 click here or to go back to the biginning of the trip click here I have finally got round to writing about this part of the trip. My blog content tends to be very much about the truly boating aspects of...
63 Degrees North just before midnight! Back offshore, working again. At latitude 63 degrees, in the North Sea, we are almost in the land of the midnight sun, so it never gets properly dark. I have been making good use of the extra time – busy planning our first...
Shangri-La after a clean and polish I am back in Aberdeen at the moment, but I spent the rest of the week in Zwartluis working hard on Shangri-La. The new propellor shaft that had been supplied was rejected by the yard as it was also slightly out of true. It would...
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.