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2025 Catharina Heads for the Midi
2024 Catharina Along the Bourbonnais
2023 Renewing Catharina
2022 Restoring Catharina
2019 Trapped on the Nivernais
2018 Painting Catharina
2017 Catharina's Mystery Tour
2016 Hergé's Adventures of Catharina
2015 Returning Catharina
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—  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 EurMacsAugust 6, 2026

    Merci pour vos aimables commentaires. Nous ne restons qu'une journée à Agen, nous partons cet après-midi, mais nous reviendrons sans…

  2. jmerklen on EurMacsAugust 6, 2026

    Bonjour, j'ai vu une magnifique péniche garée actuellement en face de chez moi (Agen). Ne sachant de quoi il s'agissait,…

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    Lisette on To the end at Moissac (7/09 – 17/9/25)July 9, 2026

    Hi Val, yes we wintered in Moissac and will do again next winter. The port is run by an affable…

  4. Val Poore on To the end at Moissac (7/09 – 17/9/25)July 8, 2026

    Oh my! I didn’t know you’d wintered over at Moissac. It happens to be one of my favourite places in…

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