Good question - how did we get from living on a small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with sheep, chickens, cats, a vegetable garden, and a 5m fishing boat to a live-aboard on the European canals?
Ah, the answer takes us back many, many years. Suffice to say, for the moment, that we have been "boatie" people for a long time. We met while on a long distance yacht race, built a sailing yacht in our back yard in Cape Town, South Africa, then, in 1986, took off on what we intended to be a round the world cruise. We had no time scale but didn't think it would take more than 4 or 5 years.
Almost 30 years later we have never made it back to SA! But I'll write those chronicles in separate pages as the mood takes me.
In 1990 we found ourselves working on the Grand Union Canal in Warwickshire and living aboard a canal boat. What a different experience that was after many years on the open ocean and we loved it but we were still in our 30's and thought this would be a great way of life to re-visit some time in the future.
25 years later the future has arrived!
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