Narrow Dog To Carcassonne

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I think this would be hard to follow if the book was intended as anything serious, but it's appropriate for the material - it is an entertainment, nothing more. Narrow Dog to Carcassonne is a true story of high adventure in France, England, Belgium and out at sea, as experienced by two innocents and a reluctant dog. You’ll meet the French nobody meets—poets, captains, scholars, madmen; they all want to know the couple on the painted boat and their narrow dog. While the thesis for this book was an English narrowboat (canal boat) taken down England, across the channel, into Belgium, and then to the south of France, the actual amount of material devoted to boating or canal details could have been summed up in less than 15 pages. Like Estuary ( reviewed earlier) I sort of enjoyed this book, but there were significant qualifications.

His voyage is illustrated by a succession of little vignettes of a paragraph or two, and the intervening time and place passes un-noted.I might sail the Phyllis May to France if there were thirty Tommies to take back and it would tip the balance in the struggle for Europe.

So a good book, a good read, very much recommended, in the mould of the other classics mentioned here, but not quite achieving the same status. A richly atmospheric journey suffused with summer heat and occasional cabin fever, reaching its climax on the flamingo-studded inland sea of the Camargue. The story of a man, his wife and his whippet who sail their narrowboat from the Midlands to the South of France including a Channel crossing would be interesting however written but the main selling point is the author's sense of humour. This book tells how the author, his wife Monica and dog Jim took their narrow boat Phyllis May down the English canal system from Stone to the Thames, across the Channel, through the French, Belgium and then French again canal systems all the way to Carcassonne.While I was suffering through “Narrow Dog to Carcassonne” I had a conversation with a good friend of mine. The publisher also needs a review on how they choose books if this is the best they can come up with.

I like the genre of travel writing because it really takes me away from the diurnal details of my life and make me dream of being in other places without the annoyances and irritations of actual travel so this was quite fun and even got me thinking about narrow boats in the future, though I might find negotiating and navigating the locks a bit difficult in practice. wasted pages trying to colorize a not very interesting trip - one in which the authors didn't seem to enjoy. Jim lies quietly under my feet, which is more than my secretary ever did, and sometimes he licks me behind the knees, and in forty years in business there was no chance of that. There's some lovely writing in here, and entertaining stories but I really did struggle with the lack of quotation marks.But faithful Jim, the whippet, is always there and is the only one I would like to spend any time with – ever. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. Aliens, trolls, gongoozlers, killer fish, and the walking dead all stand between our two-person, one-whippet crew and their goal: the ancient, many-towered city of Carcassonne. He eats pork scratchings (whatever they are) by the bagful, lopes effortlessly at 30 miles an hour and is terrified of boats. It was funny in parts and I learned something about narrow boats and whippets and a whole lot else besides.

You visit the France nobody knows - the backwaters of Flanders, the canals beneath Paris, the heavenly Yonne, the lost Burgundy Canal, the islands of the Saône, and the forbidden ways to the Mediterranean. Try reading Joyce if you want to complain about style - and he made it into the pantheon of scribblers! Learning about the remnants of physical damage and psychological pain from WWII are something I had not give much thought to. I quite enjoyed this interesting tale of a trip by narrow boat from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the south of France. Goodness, said Monica-but we are really pleased with her shape, Mozza: the low line, the big windows, and we've kept the grey.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. YOU CLOSE the gate behind you and empty the water out at the other end and you sink down, and then you open the gates in front of you and sail away. While I try to use images that I create sometimes that is not possible and so I use publicly available ones from the internet.