A very specific ‘beginning’ for the latest Weekly Photo Challenge: the beginning of our dutch barge’s French adventure, back in the spring of 2008.

With wheelhouse dismantled and stored inside the boat, Desormais is lifted from the water at Newark, Nottinghamshire.

Safely hoisted onto the back of a low-loader, the transportation crew spend several hours securing and protecting their load. For a while now she will be a boat on a lorry on a boat crossing the English channel.

Two days later Desormais arrives at Joe Parfitt’s boatyard at Laroche-Migennes on the river Yonne in France…

…and negotiates the winding road to the water’s edge where we climb up to reassemble her wheelhouse.

The river is running fast and high after recent storms and Desormais is gingerly swung out over what seems to be a miniscule mooring spot.

In she goes. Ready now to start her journey, this time by water, to the Canal du Midi. The adventure is just beginning.
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What a beauty, Sandra!
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Thank you Ese! 🙂
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That’s a very nice interpretation (because I love water, and boats, and voyages…)!
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Thanks, I’m quite partial myself. 🙂
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Great way to enjoy the adventure!
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It certainly is Amy. This was a special time for us.
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a wonderful example of a beginning 🙂
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I’d love to see it in the water in real life.
janet
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Let us know if you ever come to France, Janet. 🙂
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Be careful what you say, Sandra. We may be over next summer to visit my s-i-l near Dijon. We’ll see how that goes. We’d love to meet you in person and see your barge.
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Our permanent mooring is not far from Dijon, Janet, so do let us know if you’re coming.
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Looks great, what adventures you must have with your barge! I note your mooring is near Dijon, alas wrong side of France for me – I may get to see friends in the Aquitaine region this year… 🙂 Oh, and Happy New Year!
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We cruised through some of that region when we were based on the Canal Lateral a la Garonne, lovely countryside. Happy New Year to you too!
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