Category Archives: C’est La Vie – The Boat

What a difference a year and eight days make!

Posted on October 1, 2014 by agclontarf

Saint Jean de Losne, a small town on the Saone River, won’t mean a lot to you, but it is significant for Nuala and I. We moored in St Jean on Monday night, a year and eight days since we … Continue reading →

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A catch up blog- We have lost track of each other.

Posted on September 27, 2014 by agclontarf

Over the last few weeks we have changed our plans and moved the boat quite a long way and I realise you might have lost track of us and not know where we are or what we are doing.

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The luck of the Irish- How a key ring saved our plans to get to winter mooring in Chalon sur Saone.

Posted on September 22, 2014 by agclontarf

Yesterday was a tough day. Sorry no blogs, it has been very busy as we have gone through three countries to get from Cochem on the Moselle to Richardmenil on Canal des Vosges. Yesterday when we arrived at the Liverdun … Continue reading →

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How much Diesel do we have? Will we run out of fuel?

Posted on September 13, 2014 by agclontarf

The boat is very economical and has used a lot less fuel than I thought throughout the Gap Year. However I did get fed up of doing countless calculations and worrying if we would run out of fuel or not … Continue reading →

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Henrichenburg Boat Lift and Buying a Carpet for the Boat

Posted on September 10, 2014 by agclontarf

Last week we motored from Munster to Henrichenburg on the Elms Canal. We only stopped there because I wanted to visit the barge museum and ancient boat lifts. Nuala said we have a schedule to keep but as I would love … Continue reading →

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I have decided that today blog is all about me as it’s my birthday!

Posted on September 1, 2014 by agclontarf

Today I am 61 ! There were sometimes in my life that I thought I would never get to this age. But I have and I am in the middle of a Gap Year and celebrating my birthday, with Nuala, … Continue reading →

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Nuala brings two men she met on the quayside, to the boat!

Posted on August 24, 2014 by agclontarf

We have returned to Berlin. We are retracing our steps through the centre of Berlin along the Spree River.  I was going to tell you about this….. but then, Nuala brought two German men back to the boat.

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Today we leave Zeuthen in former East Germany after 39 days.

Posted on August 20, 2014 by agclontarf

Today we dragged ourselves away from Boothaus Roll in Zeuthen. We have been here since 12th July. This is the longest we stayed anywhere. In our hearts we did not want to move but we must as we have a Gap … Continue reading →

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Nuala was Right !

Posted on August 13, 2014 by agclontarf

We went back to Ireland for planned two weeks “holidays”  Nuala said I should put a note up on the blog saying “sorry no posts for two weeks on holidays”  I said no I would find the time to keep … Continue reading →

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Berlin family entertains us- our first night in a house in four months

Posted on July 21, 2014 by agclontarf

On Friday, Nuala and I set off to visit Heike and her family. Nuala first met Heike thirty seven years ago when they were both au pairs in Paris. Heike reminded Nuala that it was twenty seven years since they … Continue reading →

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