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Howard & Whitney from Calgary, Canada, full-time travelling the globe and the waterways of Europe.
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Sunrise on the Aisne River, and the view into town. The smaller boat of the two moored together is our home, "Change of Pace".
Sunrise on the Aisne River in France at Vic-sur-Aisne
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Sunrise on the Aisne River in France at Vic-sur-Aisne, and the view...
A year after admiring a video by a relative of Whitney's cruising their Dutch barge through Paris, we have the pleasure of doing the same trek now that it's become our new home.
Cruising Through Paris - D2 Detours
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A year after admiring a video by a relative of Whitney's cruising their Dutch barge through Paris, we have the pleasure of doing the same trek when it becomes our new home.
The video of our cruise through Paris.
Cruising through Paris on our century-old Dutch Barge
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This was a red-letter day, and one I'd been looking forward to for ...
Many of the towns we've cruised through in France this last month were fortified in the old days, with high walls, and still retain the city gates at either end of the main streets. Here are some we came across in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne and Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne.
For our first foray, we left Auxerre to head a little over 10 km (6 miles) downstream on the Yonne to Gurgy.
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For our first foray, we left Auxerre to head a little over 10 km (6 miles) downstream on the Yonne to Gurgy.
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We're moving down the river from Auxere in our barge tomorrow, but had a nice lightning storm here a few days ago.
We go through the transition to our canal boat life and the history of our 100-year-old Dutch barge.
Training, Transition and Terrible Temps - D2 Detours
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We go through the transition to our canal boat life and the history of our 100-year-old Dutch barge.
As we end our fast-moving nomad days, and change to a slower pace on a Dutch barge, we managed to visit Australia and the South Pacific.
Goodbye Fast Travel - Hello Calm Canals - D2 Detours
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As we end our fast-moving nomad days, and change to a slower pace on a Dutch barge, we managed to visit Australia and the South Pacific.
Nature can be pretty awesome. While in Tasmania, we visited the Tessellated Pavement State Reserve, where natural processes over millions of years have created pavement-like formations that reminded me of the human-made salt pans in Malta (lower picture).
New Zealand was the perfect place to start a visit to our final continent, and one where we could see ourselves living.
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New Zealand was the perfect place to start a visit to our final continent, and one we could see ourselves living.
Penguins tend to enter the water in a small herd due to the safety against predators like the Leopard seals
According to Merriam-Webster’s thesaurus, there are 63 synonyms for amazing. I’m not sure that’s even enough to truly capture how we felt about visiting Antarctica, the White Continent. -
Antarctica - There Aren't Enough Superlatives! - D2 Detours
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According to Merriam-Webster’s thesaurus, there are 63 synonyms for amazing. I’m not sure that’s even enough to truly capture how we felt about visiting Antarctica, the White Continent.
With my last post being penguins, the next logical post is seals, with the Leopard seal being the main penguin predator. There are also tons of Crabeater seals, which, despite their name (from the German word "Krebs," meaning crustacean) eat krill, and are the most abundant seal species in the world. Of course, it's hard to see them in action, so all I got were shots of them relaxing.
Penguins are everywhere in Antarctica, and you can often smell the huge colonies way before you get close to them! Once they hit the water they're pretty agile creatures. Fun fact: a group of penguins in the water is called a "raft".
This humpback whale startled us as we were sitting in a zodiac, looking for whales, when it surfaced and spouted less than 3 meters (10 feet) from our boat! I managed to get the first shot when it was about 6 meters away as it slowly cruised off. It continued to feed on krill around us for about 10 minutes.
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We usually have an overview of what our year will look like by early January, and posting it like this in the past has resulted in meeting up with other nomads or friends who are in the same area as us, so here it is for 2026. Send along a message if our paths will cross this year!