Category: Barging

Kortrijk – Deinze – Ghent To Deinze While our next guests finished their holiday in dry, sandy Egypt, prior to joining us for a watery break – we cast off into the canalised Lei for an easy one lock, no bridges, wide commercial waterway trip to…

Tournai – Leers-Nord – Zwevegem – Kortrijk To Leers-Nord The day started with a call to the Tournai waterway control to get a slot through the town. From where we were moored to the other side of town, passage is one way only and you…

Antoing to Tournai Bunkering Next day, we woke up, had a cuppa and trotted around the corner to the bunker barge, Neptunia. It was occupied again but after a 15 min wait, the commercial moved off and we turned neatly around and pulled into our…

Mons to Antoing Under the Bridge One last war-related visit was taken early in the morning. When we were last in Mons, one of our barge neighbours – Andy Soper – told us of a memorial under the railway bridge across that crossed the canal on…