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We have spent a fair bit of time cruising in the South Pacific aboard our 33 years young 11.1metre yacht, Pastime of Sydney. We are now cruising through the canals and rivers of France on our old barge, "Anja", which was built in the North of the Netherlands in 1903. Anja was 110 years old in May 2013 and we celebrated with good French Champagne- but the boat did not get any! In 2014, for Anja's 111th, we took her back to where she was built in the North of the Netherlands.

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Departure Preparations

Barging 2016

Penelope and David Kerr

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

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Hello everyone and welcome to our Blog for 2016.We are starting a little later this year, but should depart from here on the 1^st of June and arrive in France the day after.

We will spend about a week getting things ready before heading off North.

Our new French credit cards have arrived and been activated already. Our titres de sejour (long term visas) are also waiting for us at the Prefecture. Hooray!

Apart from cleaning, painting and provisiooning, the main task this year is to fit and test a new alternator assembly for the generator/welder. The alternator part can get quite hot (due to the design) so I (David) have re-designed it and have high hopes it will work fine and should give the unit a longer life.

More when we get there. You can see where we are going from the front page of our website

Best Regards,

David and Penny

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Penelope and David Kerr

We are very fortunate in being able to spend summer in Australia then summer again

in Europe. We have six months (approximately) per annum on Anja, which is based in France.

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