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On a barge in France

~ adventures on Hoop Doet Leven

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Easing into France

May 12, 2018

Sure. Right. Everybody’s so depressed because the world is coming to an end. Iran. North Korea. Stormy. Blah. Blah. Blah. …

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Cruising beyond our comfort zone

August 5, 2016

The rain stopped. The sun shone. And we travelled as slowly as we could – which, on a barge is …

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We’re not on the Canal Lateral de la Loire any more, Toto

August 11, 2015

Aaaah OOOOOOOO. Aaaah OOOOOOOO. The horn moaned out of the fog enveloping the boat. Fog so dense the boat’s bow …

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Wandering down the eaten path

August 9, 2013

Yes, we’re still in France. No, there haven’t been many blog postings from this summer’s cruising. Sorry about that. As …

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On a Barge in France – The Book

Our book about barging in France, based on this blog but with lots of additional material, is available from Amazon.

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Never Again

The political climate in the United States is ready for a novel about how the Holocaust could happen in America. I just happened to have written such a book.

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Our son Ben also wrote a novel. One reviewer wrote, “Who knew that a novel about the return of a native for his mother’s funeral, a job as a special ed teacher, and unfinished business over a long ago drowning would be so damned funny? And bring wonder and discovery along with it.”

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During the winter I build small rowing, sailing and paddling boats at a boat shed next to our house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Click here for the boatbuilding web site.

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