Imagine gliding slowly along a tree lined canal, cool shade, sunflower fields on either side of the canal,  passing through picture perfect villages, and pastoral scenes painted by many artists o...

Mention Provence, and my heart beats a little faster.  The colours, the smells, the tastes, of Provence are unforgettable.  Provence enchants and delights all senses. It doesn’t only get und...

From Lyon the Saone river converges with the Mighty Rhône River, and becomes one river.  From the Saone we went through the huge lock of de Pierre-Benite and onto the Rhône. With this amount of w...

Lyon is one of the most interesting cities in the world, and it’s amazing to have our floating home moored here.  We arrived in Lyon on the Saone river and left on the mighty Rhône. The Saone and...

It’s so much easier now that we are experienced bargees, we’re back into the slow life… traveling around 20 km a day, which takes us around 4 hours, depending on the number of locks and if we have to ...

A 10 hour flight to Paris, a TGV fast train to Lyon, where Rob meets me at the station – he’s been in port de-winterising Sojourn.  This means refilling the tanks with 2000 litres of water, refi...

From the Canal du Centre, the 10metre lock at Chalon dropped us into the River Saone, Its different barging on the rivers, there’s a feeling of freedom and space, cooler breezes, all this makes ...

Barging is a lifestyle. We mostly barge until lunchtime, and then explore a village or Ville, (have a meal, or a drink)  shop, (which is still fun to do, investigating French foods) or go for a walk o...

It was just three weeks ago that I was reading a barging friends blog, and he was commenting on how thoughtful the French are when it comes to strikes or les greves.  Everybody is told when the strike...