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Archive of our blog (previously hosted on Blogger) covering 2012 to early 2020
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The Somme….101 years later.

We made it, finally reached The Somme on 13th July and have spent three superb weeks on a lovely waterway that was so worth the effort to get there! It…

France at last

When I left you last time we were en route to Bruges from Ghent about a month ago. Well not only have we been to Bruges and stayed…

Summer 2017

Just a month after leaving the UK we finally reached Ghent where we first saw Meander, or Antonia as she was then called and agreed to buy her…

Almost boating season again :)

It feels like months ago that we were in sunny Portugal but in reality it’s only 6 weeks and we’ll soon be off again to our watery life…

91 nights and 6,483 kilometres later…….

We arrived home in Bolton on Friday 10th March, just a few days ago. All the photos are from my iPhone this time, the official photographer has been…

Au revoir time again….

This morning we said our final au revoirs to Glen and Pete, our boating friends from St. Jean de Losne.  It has been a great trip this time…

Oh no, only five weeks left!!!!

The end of January brought home the fact that we’re over half way through our winter in Portugal and what a delight it’s been! We often wonder how…

Happy New Year

The start of 2017 finds us once again in the Algarve region of Portugal for our 3rd  (though not consecutive) winter. Christmas Lights! Last winter was spent at…

Rabies injections complete

That’s it, we have now had our month’s course of rabies injections, Hep A, typhoid, polio, diptheria and tetanus and have a little booklet to prove it! So…

Home again, home again jiggety jig

The ferry crossing from Stornaway to Ullapool was a little longer than scheduled  because one of the engines was giving some trouble. The boat did pitch quite a…