NB The Puzzler

Thursday, 11 October 2018

September 2018. A final summary of nine and a half years of living on our narrowboat, The Puzzler.

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We moved to live on our narrowboat, The Puzzler, in April 2009, having sold our jigsaw and toy manufacturing business. We spent the first tw...
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Monday, 10 September 2018

27th - 31st August 2018. The Puzzler's final lift at Nieuwpoort, in Belgium, followed by bottom blacking. Across the English Channel to Dover, then on to Fox's Marina at March, in Cambridgeshire. This is our penultimate blog entry!

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On Monday we moved out into the Ijssel estuary, to find the massive boat hoist. The tide is coming in as Andy manœuvres The Puzzler downst...
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Tuesday, 4 September 2018

20th - 26th August 2018. Our last week in Belgium. From Bruges to Nieuwpoort, then a visit to Diksmuide and Fintele, before returning to Nieuwpoort, ready for liftout.

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We go in convoy round Bruges on the ringvaart, with 9 other boats, meeting a barge on the way. There is an enormous triangular lock...
Monday, 20 August 2018

18th - 19th August 2018. In Bruges.

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All the streets of Bruges have a lot of character. Rides in a horse drawn carriage are very popular. As the driver spends most of h...
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Andy and Sally
We have made wooden jigsaws for a living for over 20 years and have also cruised extensively on the UK inland waterways. In 2003 we bought a new narrowboat shell and spent the next 18 months fitting her out in Norfolk. We named her The Puzzler and launched in June 2005. We retired in April 2009 and have been living on the boat since then. Having cruised nearly all the rivers and canals of England and Wales we were then looking for waters new, so in 2011 we transported The Puzzler to Ireland. We stayed on the Irish Waterways for three happy years, then in April 2014 moved The Puzzler on to The Netherlands. We enjoyed a year's cruising there, and overwintered in Schagen, in North Holland. In spring 2015 we sailed south into France, and are now enjoying everything that this fine country has to offer. We have made Roanne our winter base.
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