17 Jun, 2013 | Canal du Midi
13 Jun, 2013 | Canal du Midi
We arrived in Paris on Tuesday, had a wonderful historic walk through an old industrial part of the city where the abattoirs were and slept well. Next morning took a train to mar bone with Gillian and were re united with lady Mary at port la Robine. She was very...
22 Aug, 2012 | Canal du Midi, France
A week ago we were in Béziers where the city was throbbing with La Féria à Béziers; music, dancing, performance food and drink (and probably bulls, which we managed to avoid). It is a huge festival and very exciting to be part of. It was quite a challenge to...
1 Aug, 2012 | Canal de La Robine, Canal du Midi
We are in Narbonne eagerly awaiting the arrival of Dave and Siobhan. There are huge renovations going on on the avenues on both sides of the port, they are being made into pedestrian areas. It does make access to the port challenging as we have to clamber through the...
22 Jul, 2012 | Canal du Midi, France
It was windy last time we visited Homps and the wind has been really strong for the last few days so we are staying here to catch up on email and for Simon to continue writing his thesis. Huge chunks of bark are flying off the trees, maybe it is worse because so many...
16 Jul, 2012 | Canal du Midi, France
We have had a wonderful week with Liza and Dan culminating in the fireworks show at Carcassonne last night which were truly amazing. We walked up to one of the bridges across the river Aude and stood around for about an hour with thousands of other spectators. It was...
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