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Category: 2025

—  By IanMay 20, 2025

Hopes and aspirations for season 2025 (20/05/2025)

Sunbury In a day or so, we will be back in Auxonne getting ready for what we hope will be achieving the destination we had in mind when we started off cursing ten years ago – reaching the Canal du Midi. As we bought Neo…
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  1. Val Poore on Tentative start to the Canal du Midi (18/7 – 20/7/25)April 6, 2026

    This post was delightful, Lisette and Ian. The rich colours of the scenery and the canal take me back to…

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    Ian on Jousting in the Sun (12/7 – 17/7/25)April 5, 2026

    But we first saw the jousting at Thuin and what a spectacle (and a surprise) it was for us. For…

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    Ian on Jousting in the Sun (12/7 – 17/7/25)April 5, 2026

    It is the realisation of a dream, Gina. The journey to the Midi has been full of delight - in…

  4. Val on Along the Mediterranean (6/7 – 12/7/25)April 1, 2026

    Lisette, how lovely to be fulfilling your dream! I’m really so pleased for you, and I love following your journeys…

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