DiscoverByBarge Week 219: Sanding and more sanding Our thirtieth wedding anniversary, lots of sanding and working hard on Clair de Lune.
DiscoverByBarge Week 218: Plans within plans We get the first round of plans back from the architects, as well as news on when we head into the dry dock.
DiscoverByBarge Week 217: Dawn of the demolition We arrive back in Gent and move into the shipyard where the work of demolition begins!
DiscoverByBarge Week 216: We made it back to Belgium After four long weeks, we finally arrive in Belgium! It's been an epic journey, but we're ready for new challenges now.
DiscoverByBarge Week 215: Heading for Reims From the Champagne-Bourgogne canal, onto the Lateral du Marne and finally, heading up to Reims. We continue winding our way north towards Belgium, up hill and down dale.
DiscoverByBarge Week 214: Turning north up the Champagne canal Our first week alone on Clair de Lune underway. We travel to St Jean-de-Losne then onto the Borgougne-Champagne canal.
DiscoverByBarge Week 213: Lessons galore on the Canal du Centre We have our first run in with a low hanging bridge as we come to grips with navigating Clair de Lune.
DiscoverByBarge Week 212: Preparing to go A crazy week. I return from Belgium with architects, we hard prepping Clair de Lune for getting underway, collect our skipper and then work even harder to make sure everything is in place. We're finally ready to set off.
Barge Week 211: Back on Clair de Lune A quick tourist visit to Brugge (market research we say!), a couple of days of admin and then it's back to Clair de Lune again.
England Week 210: Keeping up momentum A flying visit to the UK to do an Inland Waterways Handling Course and several things start falling into place.
Matilda Week 209: Matilda is on the hard An epic voyage (for me anyway) crossing from Lesvos to Athens over a couple of days as we finally relocate Matilda, then back to Belgium and Gent with Karina.
Matilda Week 208: One boat, two boats With moving Clair de Lune delayed due to closures, we decide that I should head back to Mytiline and Matilda to get her ready to leave.
Belgium Week 205: Discover by Barge The company is officially formed, we move into our apartment and the contract for the barge is ready to go. A lot happens this week!
Belgium Week 204: Exploring Gent and settling in At the end of our first week in Gent, we haven't made as much progress as we'd like, but we have made more progress than we thought.
Matilda Week 203: Kalispera Greece, Hallo Belgium And just like that, our chapter in Greece is over. We made the call and moved to Belgium...
Matilda Week 202: Diesel Drama Boat drama after boat drama this week as weather and mechanical issues conspire against us.
France Week 201: Around Burgundy, then Athens A quick trip into Burgundy, France to check out some barges and then we're off, back to Athens again.
Spain Week 200: Costa Brava We spend a week on the Costa Brava with Tim’s parents, Julie and Barry.
England Week 198: House Sitting in Bunbury Housesitting in Bunbury and exploring Chesire while we wait to head to Spain.
Travel Week 197: Ella & Inge's Wedding After 17 months of waiting, Ella and Inge's wedding finally arrives!
Travel Week 196: Edinburgh - pre-wedding A week of relaxing in Edinburgh. housesitting and waiting for Ella and Inge's wedding.
The Netherlands Week 195: The Netherlands to Edinburgh Exploring a little of the southern Netherlands, heading to Belgium for the day and then off to Edinburgh!
