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2025 Catharina Heads for the Midi

2025 Catharina Heads for the Midi

2024 Catharina along the Bourbonnais

2024 Catharina along the Bourbonnais

2023 Renewing Catharina

2023 Renewing Catharina

2022 Restoring Catharina

2022 Restoring Catharina

2019 Trapped on the Nivernais

2019 Trapped on the Nivernais

2018 Painting Catharina

2018 Painting Catharina

2017 Catharina’s Mystery Tour

2017 Catharina’s Mystery Tour

2016 Hergé’s Adventures of Catharina

2016 Hergé’s Adventures of Catharina

2015 Returning Catharina

2015 Returning Catharina

2014 Finding Neo Vita

2014 Finding Neo Vita

—  By LisetteFebruary 15, 2023

Motoring around Burgundy (12/09 – 20/09)

Auxerre – Sens – Guédelon – Vézelay – Chablis – Auxonne – Auxerre With Barb and Gus agreeing to stay with us for a few more days, and having made the decision that there was little more cruising we could entertain this season, we once…
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—  By LisetteFebruary 2, 2023

Back and Forth from Auxerre: (30/08 – 11/09)

Auxerre – Gurgy – Joigny – Cezy – Gurgy – Auxerre At Auxerre, we caught up with Mary on Aquarius, who we had first met at Tannay on the Nivernais earlier this season. Lovely to catch up again. We took advantage of another few days…
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—  By Helm and CrewJanuary 20, 2023

What’s happening to the Eurmac’s blog?

Up front – we are continuing, always with the hope we will post a bit more regularly during this (2023) season. However, we have some catching up to do. First, we have to complete the stories from the 2019 season on the Nivernais. We’ve three…
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—  By IanMay 18, 2022

Short trips to millions of bottles of bubbly: (23/8 – 29/08)

Vincelles – Bailly – Vincelles – Bailly – Auxerre Our next set of guests (our fourth for the season) was to be Frank and Tracey, friends from Melbourne. They also very much enjoy France and, in between Frank’s extensive and frequent travelling as a university…
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    Ian on Downstream on the Rhône (23/06 – 29/06/25)March 6, 2026

    Oops, just realised you were simply reporting Hennie Ha doesn't have a bow thruster, not that it's broken. We found…

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    Ian on Downstream on the Rhône (23/06 – 29/06/25)March 5, 2026

    Good Timing Val, your comment arrived just as Lisette published her blog on Avignon. Bow thrusters are such temperamental things…

  3. Val on Downstream on the Rhône (23/06 – 29/06/25)March 5, 2026

    What a trip, Ian and Lisette. That wind sounds wicked. I’m not sure we would fare too well with Hennie…

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    Ian on Lyon (20/06 – 22/06)February 23, 2026

    Our (very much delayed) pleasure Gina.

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