This is a synopsis of our planned trip for 2009.
We leave Auckland on May 8th and spend 3 days in Hong Kong before flying onto Amsterdam. Then hopefully if there are no issues with the boat, we head south through Holland, Belgium and into Northern France where we follow the Meuse Valley to Toul, before heading East on the Canal Marne au Rhin to Strasbourg, where we meet the River Rhine.
Then its downstream on the Rhine, visiting the tributaries of the River Neckar which leads to Stuttgart, the River Main which will take us over the highest navigable point in Europe before we descend into the valley of the Danube.
We retrace our steps, and continue down the Rhine passing through the awesome Rhine Gorge before heading up the River Lahn near Koblenz. Then its downhill all the way to Holland, where we head up the River Maas to Roermond - our base for the winter.
We then set off from Roermond in a Renault lease car and take the slow roads to the Amalfi coast in Italy, where we are staying in a villa in Praiano for a week. Then we head further south and over the Straits of Messina to Sicily where we are staying in two villas, one near the
capital Palermo and the other on the eastern coast near Syracuse.
Our trip on Le Fabuleux is shown on the Google maps along side this blog entry. You can click on any map to enlarge it and see more or less detail. And if you want to track our progress, click on the link about Google Latitude and you can see where we are in 'real time'. We get
back to Auckland on October 15th.
The next blog will appear on May 18th and thereafter every Monday.
We leave Auckland on May 8th and spend 3 days in Hong Kong before flying onto Amsterdam. Then hopefully if there are no issues with the boat, we head south through Holland, Belgium and into Northern France where we follow the Meuse Valley to Toul, before heading East on the Canal Marne au Rhin to Strasbourg, where we meet the River Rhine.
Then its downstream on the Rhine, visiting the tributaries of the River Neckar which leads to Stuttgart, the River Main which will take us over the highest navigable point in Europe before we descend into the valley of the Danube.
We retrace our steps, and continue down the Rhine passing through the awesome Rhine Gorge before heading up the River Lahn near Koblenz. Then its downhill all the way to Holland, where we head up the River Maas to Roermond - our base for the winter.
We then set off from Roermond in a Renault lease car and take the slow roads to the Amalfi coast in Italy, where we are staying in a villa in Praiano for a week. Then we head further south and over the Straits of Messina to Sicily where we are staying in two villas, one near the
capital Palermo and the other on the eastern coast near Syracuse.
Our trip on Le Fabuleux is shown on the Google maps along side this blog entry. You can click on any map to enlarge it and see more or less detail. And if you want to track our progress, click on the link about Google Latitude and you can see where we are in 'real time'. We get
back to Auckland on October 15th.
The next blog will appear on May 18th and thereafter every Monday.
