Retrospective

Retrospective

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...

Narbonne Again

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 –...

Sheltering from the Wind

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...

Fireworks Spectacular!

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...

Castelnaudary – Le Sala – Castelnaudary

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...