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...

We’re on the Champagne et Bourgogne Canal. At the first lock Rob gets off Sojourn and phones the eclusier, and voila! Out of the box pops a remote control to open the canals. The idea is to clic...

Last mooring on the Canal du Centre, before going through a deep lock and onto the Soane River. We are connected to electricity, and fill up with water. Often, the electricity and water is free. As he...

We moor along the canal near a well known white wine village called Santenay. Its a 2 km walk into the village, over the bridge Its clearly a wealthy village, evidence of charming gardens throughout t...

Barging today is such a fabulous lifestyle. We move on each day, or stay. If we like a place, then we stay. And there are many reasons why we like a hamlet/village/town. It could be the spot where we ...

No sooner have we moored then down comes the rain… Before we leave the following day, I walk into the village to buy a baguette or two. Overcast, but no rain….. yet…French villages a...

Its twenty one hours from Johannesburg to get to the port of Roanne… Sojourn looks pristine, We set to getting her and us ready to leave on our 2017 barging, adjusting to boat life again…w...

Rob and i have only explored a very small part of France,and only a small section of the canals in Burgundy – in 3 months barging we have travelled about 900 kilometres. There are more than 6000...

In Roanne where we will return to winter Sojourn, the barging community is nicknamed the “River Rats” and we were told that the canals are like one long village… It’s what we h...