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...
11 Aug, 2012 | Canal de La Robine, France
Narbonne seems to be the place for new crew to join us, we now have a full boat with Hugo and Ryan in the tender (green tent) and Kassie arrived last night. It is such a beautiful old city, events every night and plenty of markets. We went dancing last night –...
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...
10 Jul, 2012 | Canal du Midi, France
Under 100yr old plane trees, still healthy. Sunset at Castelnaudary after cassoulet on the boat. Castelnaudary basin, en route to bricomarche for potting mix. Bridge at Castelnaudary, solitary swan out of sight. Dn and Liza cycling along the towpath in search of a...
6 Jul, 2012 | Canal de Montech à Montauban, Canal lateral a la Garonne, France, Tarn
Sophia was born to Paula and Hugo on 29th June!!!!!!! We arrived back at Montauban after a week in England which included freezing rain and beautiful sunshine. Â Lady Mary was in good shape pleased to meet the new crew, Ali Begg from NZ via Melbourne and Cirencester,...
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