by Patrick | May 28, 2019 | Adventures, France, Netherlands |
So here we are, well into May. Normally by now I would have done masses of route planning and have our 3 months cruising all set, as well as wintering possibilities for the end of the year. But Shangri La has a new owner and we are boatless! I am a mixture of...
by Patrick | Nov 22, 2017 | Adventures, France, Information |
Sunday 23rd July 2017 Some days are full-on boating days and this was one of them! Lots and lots of locks as well as lots of low bridges. Fortunately the weather was good – not raining, but cloudy with a comfortable temperature. Perfect as we had to have all the...
by Patrick | Aug 25, 2017 | Adventures, France, Information |
On the Saone – Chalon to Macon and back Saturday 1 to Tuesday 18 July – Part 2 Tournus Tournus (pronounced Tour-noo) was a delight! We called in there twice, on the way down to Macon and again on the way back up the Saone. The mooring was a floating jetty...
by Patrick | Jun 2, 2016 | Adventures, France |
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....
by Patrick | Feb 3, 2013 | France, Other |
View from our present house in Cape Town Belated wishes for 2013. I have been pretty quiet of late, mainly because I haven’t been doing any Waterway Wandering of any sort at all. What we HAVE been doing is selling our house in Cape Town, and buying a...
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.
