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Hi everyboy .
During the last 2 years I crossed 34 countries ( Not less :)) )
But I never wrote anything over a blog .
I made a Youtube channel where I've recorded some of the stuffs I do ( I'm a bit like the Jackass team so I walways end up in very not so funny / painful situations .
Here's what is going to await me for the next 6 months .
Our first threesome
... a tidy. Not to mention it was ******* cold this morning. It was 3 degrees but felt colder with the mist and rain. Sunny here in Tournai. As i am now out of france my ph will be impossible to recharge and therfore net will be pretty sporadic if at all. So the blog may suffer. Legend has it Belgians are encouraged to leave their wifi unlocked for the good of all. Great idea. But it hasnt caught on in tournai ...
Close enough to belgium to smell chocolate
Charts would have been nice today.. Knowing what vhf channel the locks use would be an advantage. As it was when we arrived at the l escaut river there was three enormous barges waiting to pass the lock. we tied up astern of one to wait our turn. The barge driver came over and asked if we were going through. When i said yes, he said no worries, go through with the next boat. He called the tower and we cast off to go through. The dude even threw me some prop wash to help me get off ...
So close ...Just have to talk klaus into it.
we made it to Cambrai. Its only 25 or so km but about 10 locks and we played barge dodgems a lot. the barge drivers were all very helpfull and even called ahead to the other barges to let them know we had bilge keels and where we were. Helpfull. Klaus decided to have a rest after we picked up water in the lock. Rae towed and i fended till we got outside the lock and i ...
Big empty canal, and the deckie rocked chauny
... planned and racked up quite a lot of locks with very little traffic. We had one barge ahead of us which meant we had to wait at each lock for him to go through then the lock to empty for us. Eventualy i heard something on the radio. i didnt understand it so i just gave my postition and direction. Turns out it was him offering to pull over. I found this out later when he waved me through. nice of him. we clocked up some nice km today. The ...
