Category: 2015

Back with our best barging Buddies We have been in frequent contact with our barging mentors and friends, Rebecca and Michel, aboard ‘t Majeur, throughout our cruise. We had taken our first barge cruise with them and they were instrumental in us buying Catharina. Whenever…

Back Towards Home Well, it was now time to start for home – which we did by going backwards. Our view of liquids on a barge during an unattended winter is: empty of water and full of fuel. We had been progressively depleting the former…

Plans Timing was looking OK, we needed to leave Veurne early on the 22nd to catch our plane late on the 23rd in Amsterdam – breaking the journey to have an overnight visit with some friends on the way. As it was now the 13th…

Bruges/Brugge? It’s so difficult to get the names right in Belgium. Most places have three names we have to consider: the Dutch/Flemish, the French/Wallonian and the English. So we have, variously, Ghent (En), Gent (Du) and Gand (Fr). Fortunately, the English and the French both…