Lady Mary

By the canal St. Martin, in Paris, with Gillian. A welcome rest before the final train ride to Castelnaudary. We managed to get on the train in the wrong direction from the airport and would have ended up in Lille if we hadn't realised and leapt off at Arras to head...

Rosie sent these photos. Castelnaudary looks lovely and I hope Lady Mary is enjoying herself.

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...

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 Cité in Carcassonne. The fairytale castle is massive in scale - I think there are about 50 different towers throughout...

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 know that...

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 adjust...