Cruising in France

After spending a summer on a canal boat in France (France 2017) we decided we liked it enough to spend the next five or six summers repeating the experience. Since renting a boat every summer doesn’t make a lot of sense financially we started looking for a boat to purchase.  This page and the associated posts will detail our adventures in boat ownership in France.

Decize 2024

Posts (2025):

Bumming Around Belfort

Messing Around Metz

No Paris This Year…

Besançon and bust

And We’re Off!

Day 1… We’re back!

2025 Plans

Posts (2024):

The Canal du Rhône au Rhin

Invaded by Alaskans!

Back on Decize and… Covid

A Turkish Interlude

Running with the Big Boys

Back on Board (May 2024)

Posts (2023):

One Last Trip North

Back to St Jean

Lyon and the Rhône

The Seille and the Louhans Market

North to Montbeliard

Champagne in Champagne!

North to…. Our New Bimini

Back in France – 2023 Shakedown Cruise

Posts (2022):

Last week on the boat … with friends (Sep 2022)

A Break from Cruising to….. Cruise! (Sep 2022)

Heading Back South (Aug 2022)

North on the Saône (Jul 2022)

A Week with the Kids! (Jul 2022)

Shakedown Cruise Complete! (Jul 2022)

Finally Cruising! (Jun 2022)

Two weeks, no motor, new bikes and the hunt for the elusive martini glass! (Jun 2022)

Lists, Lists, Lists and Boxes (May 2022)

France Long Stay Visa …. (Feb 2022)

Posts (Pre-2022):

Back in France! (Aug 2021)

We Bought a Boat!! (Jan 2020)