Travelling the Canals and Rivers of Europe
A website of Austin and Susi Robinson's European travels on their Dutch Cruiser, “Freshwater".
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Blog 2019
Back in Holland/Meppel
Zwolle and Kampen
From Urk to Enkhuizen, Hoorn and Edam
New Aussie Crew
’s-Hertogenbosch!
Last days in the Netherlands
Liège, Belgium
Huy and Namur
Belgian Weather!
Mons and happy re-unions
From Mons to the Blaton-Ath Canal
Ath and Brussels
The River Dender
Aalst to the Bocholt-Herentals Canal
Maastricht & Zuidwillemsvaart
Last days in Maastricht
Blog 2018
Amsterdam/Born - Reunited
Naarden and the road to Cinque Terre
Cinque Terre
Ciao Italy!
Maasbracht - Mamma mia - here we go again…!
Roermond
Venlo
Arcen and a flying visit to Remscheid
Gennep & Ravenstein
Heusden, Woudrichem, Gorinchem and the Castle “Loevestein"
Dordrecht
Kinderdijk/Rotterdam
Delft
Den Haag, Leiden and Katwijk
Haarlem & Amsterdam
Weesp, Muiden & the Ijsselmeer
Along the River Vecht
Utrecht
Hot days with wonderful company
Oudewater (Old Water) and Witches
Gouda
Rivers of central Holland
Spakenburg, Amersfoort and Elburg
Gone with the wind - Hasselt & Meppel
Blokzijl and beyond
Friesland 1 -Lemmer, Sloten, Heeg
Friesland 2 - Stavoren, Hindeloopen & Workum
Friesland 3 - Bolsward & IJlst
Friesland 4 - Sneek & Grou
Friesland 5 - Hurray in Joure!!!
Trouble in Paradise!
Giethoorn, last stop for the year
Casablanca
The Royal Cities of Morocco - Rabat
Meknes - Volubilis - Chefchaouen
Fes
The Atlas Mountains - The Sahara - Todra Gorge - M’goun Valley
Kasbahs & Ksars
Marrakech and Essaouira
Blog 2017
Blog 2016
Back for another year of Cruising
Down the Moselle
Metz/Thionville
The Three Country Corner and Luxembourg
Schweich
C’est la vie!
Flooding on the Moselle
We are on the move!!!
Mettlach
Merzig
Saarlouis
Völklingen
Saareguemines, France
To the top of the Saar Canal
Arzviller Boat lift
Lagarde to Toul
Allez les Bleus!!! - Good bye Toul!
La Meuse
Canal des Ardennes
Reims & Sillery
Condé-sur-Marne & Châlons-en-Champagne
Épernay re-visited
Dormans & Château-Thierry
La Marne, Meaux & Mickey Mouse
Three nights in Paris
Au Revoir Paris!
River Oise and the Canal du Nord
Entering Belgium
Strépy Thieu Boatlift
Sojourn in Amsterdam
Mons to Namur
Huy and Liège
Maastricht
“Tot ziens” Freshwater
Blog 2015
We are back!
Lots of Movement
More fun in Toul
Marina Life - while we are waiting
Good bye Toul
Commercy
Saint-Mihiel
Verdun
Mouzon
Sedan - the town, not the car
Charleville-Mézières
Revin mad!
Givet
Dinant - Belgium
Namur
Huy - LeTour de France
Maastricht, Netherlands
Germany/Netherlands/Belgium
Canal Herentals- Bocholt
Antwerp - rubbing shoulders with Rubens
Lier on the Nete
Ghent, the capital of Flanders
Bruges, alias Brügge
The Leie
Kortrijk
Back to France
Douai
Saint Quentin
Chauny
Reims
Epernay
Châlons-en-Champagne
Bar-le-Duc
Home Stretch
Port de France Celebrations
End of Season
Afterword
Blog 2014
Robinson Cruis(o)es Part 2
Beautiful one day…...
The Royal Tour
Still in St. Jean!
Senseless in St. Jean
Plenty of movement
Auxonne - and the saddle thief
Dôle and beyond
Ranchot - we really ran hot
Thoraise and the tunnel
Besançon - Quelle ville!
Baume-les-Dames!!! Where are my glasses!?
L’isle-sur-le-Doubs
Remscheid - Reunion
Lorraine - Toul, Épinal, Plombières-les-Bains
Montbéliard - history & industry
Montreux-Château
Porte D’Alsace - Dannemarie
Mulhouse et Malheur
Games, Trains and Automobiles
Basel - Switzerland
Mulhouse to Breisach - powering along
Alsace/Elsaß - along the wine route
A few more Alsatian impressions
Colmar revisited
Expect the unexpected!
Hasty departure from Kunheim
Strasbourg, a town of contrasts
Strasbourg in rain/sunshine and at night
Canal de la Marne au Rhin
Lutzelbourg/Arzviller Shuffle
Souffelweyersheim to Iffezheim
Down the Rhein
Wiesbaden
The Middle Rhein
Koblenz, where the Rhein meets the Mosel
Cochem at the Mosel
Bernkastel-Kues
Noviomago (Neumagen)
Trier and Saarburg,
Wasserbillig, Luxembourg
Luxembourg City
Thionville - back in France
Metz
The last leg to Toul
Toul
Blog 2013
We are back!!!
"Murphy's Law"
Liberation Day
The French Way
Mothers day in St. Jean
Test-Run
Dôle
When it rains it pours!
Keeping ourselves amused
Canal Life
Steady as she goes…..
Lost and Found
Dijon - On the Owl's Trail
Fleurey sur Ouche - Off to find the wolf's cave
Abbey de la Bussiére - First day of summer
Pont d'Ouche - The 3 "P"s
Vandenesse-en-Auxois and Châteauneuf
Pouilly en Auxois to Pouillenay
The Pouilly Tunnel - Claustrophobia!
Abbaye de Flavigny - The setting for the movie Chocolat
Venarey les Laumes - Château de Bussy-Rabutin
Montbard, Ancy le Franc, Ancy, Tanlay and Tonnerre
Susi Homemaker
St. Florentin and Brienon-sur-Armaçon
Yonne River - Joigny
Sens to Monterau-fau-Yonne
Along the Seine
Paris
3 days in Paris
Upstream to Moret-sur-Loing
Montargis - Vive le shopping!
Trapped in Le Train
Montbouy and Châtillon
Hot and hotter in Châtillon Coligny
Rogny-les-Sept-Ecluses
Ouzouer-sur-Trézée
Briare
Châtillion sur Loire to Belleville
Cosne, Sancerre, Herry and Course of course
Never say "Nevers"!
Fleury-sur-Loire and our New Crew
From Decize to the end of the Canal Latéral de la Loire
Digion
Paray re-visited
Château de Digoine - ecluse No.19
Montceau-les-Mines
Montchanin
St. Julien
St. Léger to Santenay
Chagny
Fragnes and Chalon-sur-Saône
The last one was a doozy
Au revoir
Blog 2012
Arrived in Holland
Canal Du Midi
Arles
Pont du Gard & Avignon
French Riviera
Orange
Lyon
Bourgogne (Burgundy)
Boats, Birthdays and Barbers
Alsace/Elsaß
The Black Forest, Germany
Black Forest and Würzburg
England
Skippers Ahoy!!!
Portsmouth
Brighton
Vietnam
Malaysia
Photo Album for 2012
Photos Of Holland
Canal Du Midi
Beziers, the old theatre
The cathedral of St Nazaire from the other side
The Fonseranne steps
Tunnel de Malpas
Bloody lot of Churches here!!!
Carcassonne
La Cité by day
La Cité by night
Susi standing guard
The northern turrets
Susi on the battlements
I'm tired, leave me alone!!!
Susi before breakfast
Flamenco festival
Pont du Gard & Avignon
Pont du Gard
View from the Top
Avignon town centre
Avignon's Town Wall
Paddle boarders in the Rhone River
Sur le pont d'Avignon (The bridge of Avignon)
Of course we ALL know the song
Water wheels in Avignon
Outdoor Market
Avignon taken from Villeneuve-les-Avignon
At St. André Fortress
Like my car?!!!
Arles
River Rhone
Roman Arena
Roman Arena by night
Not sure, but looks good
Typical Traffic Jam here
Van Gogh's Le Café Le Soir
Typical night street scape
Another Church
Inside
Les Boux 1
Les Boux 2
Les Boux from up top
French Riviera
Cassis Harbour
Calanques by Cassis
Another Calanques (Fjord) of Cassis
Cassis
View from the Routes de Cretes
Some of the smaller boats at St. Tropez
Crystal clear water
Isn't she gorgeous
Sailor's Cemetery at St. Tropez
Bell Tower - St. Tropez
St. Tropez
Guess Tom Cruise will have to change the name now…
St. Tropez
Just wanted to show the pebble beach
Orange
Amphitheatre
Amphitheatre from the side
Arc de Triomphe
Picnicing in the Park
Lyon
St. Jean's Cathedral, Lyon
View from the river Sâone
Basilique Notre Dame de Fourvière
View onto Fourvière, Lyon
Taken from the steps to the basilica onto St. Jean's
The Smurfs at War
The new Smurfette
Bourgogne
The Oeverjong-A Dutch Barge For Sale
Basilica in Paray-de-Monial taken from hotel room
Basilica at night
Town Hall in Paray-de-Monial
Boats, Birthdays and Barbers
Boat for sale in Briennon
I love Birthdays!!!
Barge for Sale
Inside the Barge
Our New Boat, the Leieland
Dinette on the Leieland
Lounge Area
Bathroom
Main Bedroom
Second Bedroom
Flybridge
The old owner on the aft deck
Traffic jam on the bridge
Susi's French caused this stuff up!!!!!
Alsace
Automatic Lock at Dole
Old Tannery Quarter of Dole
Louis Pasteur's birth house
Notre Dame - Dole
Someone's having fun!!!
Hut 1000 metre above Muhrbach
Recycle Art Expo
Cuttle-ry fish
Colmar - Rue des Marchands
Old house in Colmar
Typical old house
Old wine presses in Unterlinden Museum
Altar piece in Unterlinden Museum
What the!?!?!?!
The Black Forest, Germany
Lake Titi (Titisee)
Good stop for Lunch
View from Lake Walk
Countryside
Typical Country Church
Typical Black Forest Farmhouse
Black Forest and Würzburg
Pfifferlinge Mushrooms
Farmer's Stall at roadside
Village in the Black Forest
Residenz Palace - Würzburg
Ceiling Fresco
Palace Gardens
Pan and other drunk
Fortress Marienberg
Würzburg from the Old Bridge
On the market
Our new Diet
England
What a load of Bull
The Thames, full to overflowing. Typical British weather
Wargrave
Hendley on Thames
Dusty Springfield's grave
Windor Castle
The flags up, so the Queens in
Family, Friends and Hometowns
The old Müngster Brücke
St. Christopher (in the Cologne Cathedral)
Rhein & Kölner Dom (Cologne)
Brunch at Mareike & Hartmut's
Helmut, Erika & Susi in Essen
Beautiful Mutti
Thomas (mon frère)
Mutti mit Susi & Strolchi
Daisy Nook Walk
"Dooks" at Daisy Nook
With Aunty Doris & Uncle Alan
Elsie & Austin
Alan & Susi (after a bottle of Red)
Steven, Gail & Mark
The Old Wellington
Manchester Football Museum in Manchurian weather
Samantha and William
Auntie Shirley and Keeley (and "Lola")
Brenda, Austin, Shirley & George
Fairwell Dinner with Bobby, Donna, Josh, Doris & Alan in Lanchaster
Portsmouth
Portsmouth to Isle of Wight Ferry
Harbour View
Spinnaker Tower
The Still & West
HMS Victory
The Victory Stern
Portsmouth Cathedral
Brighton
Brighton Beach at a close up
Brighton Pier
Johnny Depp II
Helter Skelter on the Pier
At the Pier
Big British Seagull
The Royal Pavilion
Beachside Pavillion at night
Vietnam
Michael and Trang's building
View from the balcony
Our bedroom
Dining and loungeroom
The Family: Tuyen, Mę's 5th son & wife, Mę, Trang, Vu and Aie
Off to market
Road of Despair on Phu Quoc
Fresh Seafood on the Beach - Michael with his "not happy" face
Trying to get the coconut
Hair removal Vietnam style
Beautiful CEO
Malaysia
Chinatown
Statue of Shiva at Batu Caves
Billy Connelly reincarnated
272 Steps to Batu Caves
Waiting for food
The Cathedral Cave
Worshipper with Baby
One of the shrines
Little girl posing at shrine of Goddess Shashthi
Doctor Fish Therapy
Sur le pont d'Avignon (The bridge of Avignon)
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