2008 Canal Saint-Martin Barge Picnic
Our port is on the canal Saint-Martin with a lock on the Seine and a tunnel heading up to the 10th arrondissement at the Bastille end of...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 14, 2021
- 1 min
January 2000
We arrived in Paris on January 12th. It was a good flight; even our dog Toby made it without incident. After we took off, the flight...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 13, 2021
- 3 min
January 2001
On New Year's Eve day, we decided that it would be a good idea to go to the Horse for a giraffe. It was late afternoon, and we were just...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 13, 2021
- 2 min
February 2000
This is the Marco, the barge that we hope to turn into our new home. After looking at many barges in France, Belgium, and Holland, we...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 12, 2021
- 2 min
February 2001
Julia Child said that eating is France's national sport, and we feel like major league players when we visit our favorite country...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 11, 2021
- 1 min
March 2000
Spring has sprung, and while our barge is undergoing a make-over, we have time to enjoy the warm weather by exploring our neighborhood....
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 11, 2021
- 3 min
March 2001
If you read Toby's last page, you know that he went to Lyon for knee surgery in January and that he has been confined to the house since...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 10, 2021
- 2 min
April 2000
The good news is that we are not going to sink. The bad news is that we caught on fire. We have just spent a couple of busy weeks in dry...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 10, 2021
- 4 min
April 2001
Spring in Roanne is acting just like the stock market. It just can't seem to get started. Every bright, sunny morning, all of the cafés...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 9, 2021
- 2 min
May 2000
Barcelona was a fun and relaxing vacation, and we were able to help our friends at the same time. We used our big station wagon to help...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 9, 2021
- 3 min
May 2001
The dawning of each new day in Roanne now brings the departure of another boat. Since mid-April, we have been to the lock many times to...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 8, 2021
- 2 min
June 2000
We have been in France for five months now, and we love the experience of living in a small village. Saint-Symphorien-sur-Saône has a...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 8, 2021
- 2 min
June 2001
Enfin, we are cruising. There is a lock at the entrance of our port in Roanne that we came through last year when we arrived, and we have...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 7, 2021
- 2 min
July 2000
Since January, we have been learning about France while shopping. You can tell a lot about a culture by shopping in the home furnishing...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 7, 2021
- 3 min
July 2001
We had planned to cruise into Paris last July, but it took us a whole year to make our way there on our barge with one thing and another....
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 6, 2021
- 4 min
August 2000
We have been dreaming of cruising away for quite a while now. We thought we were ready to go last month, but we found out we still had...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 6, 2021
- 2 min
August 2001
Do you remember your first car trip after learning how to drive? Instead of just going across town, imagine that you went from San...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 6, 2021
- 1 min
2011 Our Certificat Communautaire
15 months after we went into the boatyard in Belgium to have our EU safety survey, now required for all barges over 20 meters, we finally...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 5, 2021
- 3 min
September 2000
Our last few days in Saint-Jean-de-Losne were hectic. We finally left even though we still had a small list of jobs. No matter how long...
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Bill and Nancy
- Feb 5, 2021
- 1 min
2011 Festival de l'Oh!
We have just returned to Paris after three very pleasant weeks on the Marne River. We spent some time in Meaux enjoying the easy pace and...
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