For our 100th Episode we’re celebrating with the biggest challenge we’ve faced since crossing the Atlantic Ocean: a 7 Lock staircase on the French canals. The Canal du Midi is…
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This week we’re enjoying our canal boat life in the town of Beziérs on the Canal du Midi. The French canals are definitely living up to our expectations as we…
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We finally made it into the French Canals on our tiny floating home! Boat life is occasionally extremely stressful. Taking our tiny floating home through 100 stone sided locks would…
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How did we turn our sailing yacht into a canal boat for our journey through the french canals? This week we demonstrate the process of preparing our Southerly 38 for…
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We finally cross the Spain/France border and find ourselves in the gorgeous villages of Port Vendres and Collioure. Plus- a sneak peek at what’s coming up this season, including our…
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It’s been over a week since I last updated this blog, and the main reason for the lag between posts is because we’ve been sailing pretty much non-stop. We’ve been…
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I’m sitting here drinking our last bottle of shandy and considering the fact that, despite making shandy a priority on our shopping trips (they’re £2 for 10 bottles in Super U-…
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The sunny, warm weather we’d hoped for this week utterly failed to materialise. We left Sables d’Olonne on Monday morning, as planned, and it seemed that half the boats in…
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The last week has moved pretty slowly, which is in keeping with our general pace of life at the moment. After leaving La Rochelle on Monday we motored a whole…
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Matt and Kaitlyn flew back to London on Friday, and since then Nick and I have been trying to get out of “holiday mode” and into a more settled routine. So,…
