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We did not want to leave Meaux
We spent from last Thursday up until yesterday in Meaux (Pronounced Mo) which is on the river Marne and is famous for its Brie cheese and Pommery Moutarde du Meaux (mustard). Neither of us wanted to leave and we had … Continue reading
Hi all Nuala here with my first blog…
It has been over a month since I came to France to join Adrian on this wonderful adventure. Yes I was apprehensive, but it has being great. I flew into Beauvais Airport and then drove in a hired car to … Continue reading
Since we started our Gap Year we keep having amazing coincidences- Can someone please explain it to me?
Speaking to my new account manager Ben Aliaga-Kelly in Merrion Stockbrokers yesterday, he asked did I get the email he had sent with photos of the boat? I said I had not and he resent on the spot. It showed … Continue reading
Posted in C'est La Vie - The Boat, Experiences on the Canals, On the Journey, Paris, People We have Meet on the Gap Year, People who have helped us on our way
Tagged Arsenal marina Paris, Ben Aliaga-Kelly, Berlin, C'est la Vie, Calais, Cambrai, Dr Angelika and Franz Paulus, Eiffel Tower, English Channel, Fredrick Ozanam, Ivan Fox, Merrion Stockbrokers, paris, St Padre Pio, SVP
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Why a Picnic in the Park cost me €75
We spent one day shopping for clothes in Paris for Nuala. I think it was the hardest day of the Gap Year so far ( for me anyhow!). We went to the 9th district – famous for Boulevard Haussmann , Galeries Lafayette, Printemps etc. … Continue reading
Visit to the International Office of Saint Vincent de Paul in Paris
As many of you know, both Nuala and I have been volunteers with SVP for many years and that we first met at a SVP meeting. Also, for the last eight years Nuala has worked full time for the Society … Continue reading
Posted in On the Journey, People We have Meet on the Gap Year, People who have helped us on our way, Places visited
Tagged Brian O'Reilly VP General SVP, Commission for International Aid and Development, Fredrick Ozanam, Liam Fitzpatrick Treasure General SVP, Rose McGowan, Saint Vincent de Paul, SVP, SVP International Office Paris
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We ran aground!!
On Wednesday 23 April, when exiting Lock 4 at Creil, we ran aground. It happened suddenly. We went from doing 4 knots to a sudden stop. We have got stuck along the way a few times in mud, always when … Continue reading
We have arrived in Paris!
After a journey of 1,343 km, starting at Tarmonbarry on the Shannon in Ireland which included transporting the boat from the Shannon to Dover in England by road and ferry, crossing the English Channel, travelling down the Canal de Calais, … Continue reading
Our first real visitors to the boat.
We had our first visitors to stay with us on the boat. My daughter Louise, her husband Josselin, my granddaughter Eve (6 years) and grandson Eamon (5months) came to stay with us for five days. They joined us at Chauny … Continue reading
I am starting to slow down too much
Boating is a slow speed affair. If you travel 40 kilometres in a day, you are doing well. So people who live on boats on canals tend to slow down, adopt the speed of the boat and everything can wait … Continue reading
Posted in C'est La Vie - The Boat, On the Journey
Tagged C'est la Vie, Compiegne Plaza, Varneuil
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Adrian and Nuala's Gap Year 
Why do we all put up with Vandalism?
Yesterday we arrived in La Ferte sous Jouarre. It’s a nice town with good mooring pontoons. As we approached the moorings, the owner of one of the other moored boats (we had met him in Meaux) shouted to us ‘there is … Continue reading →