15 Nov, 2009 | Canal du Midi, France
Bob is sending us news of the Lady: Today I ran up the engines on Lady Mary. They started well with the pre heat I also checked to make sure that there was water coming out of the exhausts. All is well. I checked through the boat for signs of water ingress, but all...
13 Oct, 2009 | Canal du Midi, France
We spent three nights last week parked up on the quay in ville basse at the foot of the beautiful UNESCO world heritage listed fortifications of La Cit̩ in Carcassonne. The fairytale castle is massive in scale РI think there are about 50 different towers...
10 Oct, 2009 | Canal du Midi, France
Getting free wi-fi in the rural South of France is proving much trickier than we expected! Still, we’ve made it to Castelnaudary now so hopefully there will be a few more blog updates coming your way… This is just a quick note to let our faithful readers...
1 Oct, 2009 | Canal du Midi, France
On Sunday the 27th the Lady Mary was bombarded by a handsome rogue and three bonny lasses. They ate everything in the galley and left the skipper nothing but Desperado (a beer and tequila premix in a can… blergh). We now have the co-ordinates for the blog so...
18 Aug, 2009 | Canal de Bourgogne, France
We have had a very pleasant journey from Venarey-les-laumes to Dijon with Jenny and Hilde. I am sitting on Lady Mary in the very weedy harbour waiting for Dan and Liza and Hugo to find us. It is scorching hot, sometimes hard to sleep at nights. This last stretch has...
10 Aug, 2009 | Canal de Bourgogne, France
We have had a few days of mysteries and history. In Tonnerre we visited Fosse Dionne – an amazingly beautiful spring partly converted to a wash-house in times gone by, its source is unknown. We arrived in Tanlay in time to have a guided tour of the chateau, it...
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