2015 European waterway trip – On the Saone River On the Saone River Leaving the Canal de la Marne a la Soane, and entering the Saone was a milestone and a great relief. We were now a handful of locks and about 40 odd kms from our end point at St Jean-de-Losne,...
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...
European inland waterway cruising – planning for 2015 Shangri-La in 2013 We have been thinking about what to do and where to go this year in general terms for a while, but the time has come for some serious planning. The original intention had always been to...
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.