Posted in 2009 season on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We arrived back in Victoria BC a few days ago and waiting for us in a massive pile of mail was the third issue of the brilliant Upppercase magazine. We met the creator of Uppercase last march in her Calgary gallery shop. During the past season Brandy & Becky at the Regional Assembly of Text [...]
Posted in 2009 season on October 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Here are some visual highlights from our last week, sailing from Moissac to Toulouse in the Company of Holly, Tyler, Geoffrey and Ann, as well as Dad Wolferstan. It was a great week and a fitting end to an adventurous and eventful season. This very well may well have been our last week aboard Linquenda, [...]
Posted in 2009 season on October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We spent last night at anchor in the Lac de St-Niclas-de-la-Grave which isn’t really a lake but a damned section of the Garonne river at confluence with the Tarn river. It was a pleasant night for anchoring, with a long and delicious meal of moules-marinier, enjoyed while swinging on the hook, a small sailboat gliding [...]
Posted in 2009 season on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Storm clouds brewed over the riverside town of Nerac the day after we arrived. Before leaving, we experienced our first full days of rain since Spring. The novelty of it, while nice for the first hour, wore off pretty quickly though the rain stuck around for two days. Since then we have had a week [...]
Posted in 2009 season on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What could be better than a week with friends aboard a Dutch barge working your way up a small backwater river? Rounds of tea, followed by by rounds of beer, followed by rounds of boules. Kai and Patrick joined us for the voyage from Moissac to Nerac. The first night we anchored out on the [...]
Posted in 2009 season on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week Linquenda was pleased to welcome Dad back to France after almost two years absence, his longest time away from the boat since the family first sailed Linquenda in 1996.
We also have two good friends Patrick and Kai from Victoria with us, as we weave our way up the River Baise to Nérac.
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Posted in 2009 season, food & drink on September 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A few of the food highlights from the past week…Before departing Mas D’Argenais we liberated a bundle of fresh figs from a tree not far from the boat. Combined with some crumbled roquefort cheese, olive oil and ground pepper these little delights made for an excellent snack. They went down well with mint-tonics, a simple [...]
Posted in 2009 season, sailing/traditional boats on September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Sete on the Meditteranean, where we last splashed in the salt chuck, we have traveled 413km of canal and negotiated 137 locks over 23 days. Two more hours on a train (and another 100km) found us in Arcachon, a seaside town at the head of a massive tidal estuary southwest of Bordeaux. First thing [...]
Posted in 2009 season, the urban traveller on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last Friday we left the barge for the weekend (first time off the boat since March) and it was a great get-away. Bordeaux has got to be one the most pedestrian friendly cities we have ever visited, which makes it a pleasure to stroll through and explore. A perfect flaneur city. The large city centre. [...]
Posted in 2009 season on August 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Since departing Castelsarrasin just under a week ago we have been slowly creeping west towards Bordeaux. Over the Tarn river by canal bridge and into Moissac, then on to Valence D’Agen and Finally Agen, famous for it prunes (dianna says they are delicious). After Agen another canal bridge took us over the Garonne river and [...]
