NAVIGATION 2017

Another year and it's time to plan more adventures. This year, canal systems and rivers willing, we are proposing to go south onto La Marne, south east on the Canal latéral à la Marne to Châlons-en-Champagne then onto the Canal de la Marne au Rhin to Nancy up to Metz on La Moselle, back to Nancy then east to Strasbourg, south along the Canal du Rhône au Rhin then Le Rhin turning south west to Mulhouse, Belfort and Besançon on the Canal du Rhône-au-Rhin towards La Soâne and Dijon. Well that was quite a sentence and it sounds quite a trip, about 1000km. Time and events will tell. Next winter?

It's been great in Reims, lots of good times, friends and yes Champagne. One guest, the name shall remain secret, managed to pass the entire long weekend with the only liquid intake being Champagne. Not even a glass of water! Well done. We finished our stay with a university reunion. The highlight (of course) being a Champagne reception on Soraya.

Champagne, charcuterie and characters!

We are off now and on our first day of navigation we were informed that the Canal de la Marne au Rhin was closed due to an accident at the end of March that has written off a a set of lock gates!!! We have carried on and have been informed today that all is good the gates have been replaced. We nearly had a major diversion before we had hardly started.