Ice on C est la Vie – 4 degrees
Update on the broken car. First, we have had to cancel our planned visit to England to celebrate the New Year. On top of this, last night was the coldest we have seen (-4 degrees) and there was ice on the inside of the boat windows this morning! Continue reading
Christmas dinner Eamon, Jo, Louise, Eve and Nuala
Tuesday we planned to go to Geneva by car to stay with my daughter Louise and her family for Christmas. We were up at 7 am, Nuala has an appointment to get her hair done and 9 am and we planned to leave to leave at 11 am but we never got there that day. Continue reading
Nuala lights a candle in The Basilica at Paray-le-Monial
Recently we realised we were less than an hour away from Taizé and Paray-le- Monial. These are two great centre of prayer which many Irish people travel from Ireland to visit. So we decided we should also visit them. Continue reading
Santa at last Sunday’s Market
Suddenly Christmas seems to be upon us. So far it’s been a very different Christmas for us this year. In the past we would have been very busy at work in the run up to Christmas but this year there is no pressure and suddenly it’s Christmas. Continue reading
Nuala with fish pie
One of Nuala Gap Year goals was to learn to cook better. She has been practicing over the last few months and when the opportunity came to invite people onto the boat for dinner, she reluctantly rose to the challenge. Continue reading
Adrian and Nuala in front of ‘C’est la Vie’
Looking back on my life, I realise that I used to be afraid of things going wrong and worried constantly. Sometimes I was not fully aware that I was doing this but it was an undercurrent in my life. Taking the Gap Year gave me a chance to realise this. Continue reading
Chalon Marina- our new home
We have never lived on a boat before in winter. So we don’t know how cold it will get….
Inner yard of Hospice- note coloured roof tiles
Yesterday we went to visit Hospices du Beaune, a free hospital for the poor of Burgundy founded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin. We ourselves are supporters of Saint Vincent de Paul, a charitable organisation also founded in France by Fredric Ozanam in 1833. This shows that people have helped others throughout the centuries. Continue reading
First Peugeot – note cart and horse shafts in background
This week we drove to see the Peugeot Museum in Sochaux. It was a very different type of museum than the Volkswagen Museum in Wolfsburg, Germany.
This museum is devoted to the Peugeot automobile business. The museum was founded in 1988 next to the Company’s huge industrial site at Sochaux, high up in the hills, quite close to the Swiss border. Continue reading
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Adrian and Nuala's Gap Year 
Happy New Year to All at home in Ireland or Geneva and here in Chalon.
Neil and Bernie- photo last year in Dublin
On this Gap Year we have learned to go with the flow. Because of our car problems we will now be celebrating New Year with Rodger Collins and his friends on his barge Silhouette in Chalon, not as planned in Portsmouth with Neil & Bernie. Now that we are in Chalon for three months we have had a great social life and the local people have made us feel welcome. Continue reading →
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