Kevin, Isabelle & Barge Nilaya

04/08/2025

We know you’re aficionados of Rick Steve… So here’s an interview he gave to the BBC about the importance of travelling.

BBC Special Correspondent Katty Kay and travel writer Rick Steves discuss the importance of travel and how it can bring new perspectives.

30/07/2025

Our best caring thoughts to our Hawaïen guests, past and to come.
Stay safe…

06/07/2025

What’s the catch of the day for lunch? Nothing better than a fresh salad from the deck…

03/07/2025

Some of you can be the lucky ones to experience one of our finest barge cruise route between Saverne and Nancy this fall.
2 cabins / 4 guests from the 4th to the 10th of October and, due to cancellation for health issue, 1 cabin / 2 guests from the 18th to 24th of October.
For further details don’t hesitate to contact us by email ([email protected]).

03/07/2025

🎶🎶🎶“Sweet dreams are made of cheese, who am I to diss-a-brie, I cheddar the world and the feta cheese, everybody’s looking for Stilton” 🎶🎶🎶😉

02/07/2025

We had a beautiful surprise while visiting the Chspelle des Cordeliers hosting the biggest stain glass window made by Marc Chagall as a group of nuns on pilgrimage started to sing. Ephemeral…

01/07/2025

This morning while going up the big lock at Rechicourt le Château, 16m and one of the deepest one in France, our attention was drawn by a small animal struggling to keep afloat on the side of the barge. We don’t know how he arrived there but a young fox was desperately swimming in the lock. So we dropped a bucket under him. He seemed to instinctively understand it was his salvation and stayed into it until we reached the top and released the poor shivering puppy on safe land… He was a bit shocked and got the hiccup but seemed all right.

01/07/2025

Dinner below the big lock at Rechicourt le Château in Lorraine. Only the frogs and the stars…

30/06/2025

Bonne nuit from the french canal….

04/04/2025

Okay. Can’t take this madness any more. We’re taking a break from Instagram and Facebook. Sorry. Xx

29/03/2025

Myanmar or formally Burma. One of our favourite travel destinations bar none. I’m sharing more from our amazing 2014 trip, because the memories and experience’s from that trip alone will live with us for the rest of our lives.

We all make lots of trips if lucky and wealthy enough, but just once in a while, a trip becomes more than the addition of hotel bills.

Something special happens. A bond, a love, a real emotional rollercoaster. If the civil war hadn’t happened after we’d left, I have no doubts that Myanmar would be our ephemeral ‘home’. We’d have done everything we possibly could to help some children, boost a school, train some teenagers, anything. But alas it was not to be.

What goes on in Myanmar breaks our hearts and every day that goes by, it breaks a little more. So sad 😭

28/03/2025

Myanmar. So sad to see the earthquake news from Myanmar today. As if that poor country wasn’t going through enough, with its civil war. Our 2014 trip there ranks as one of the finest tours we ever made. We cruised under the bridge in the first picture on a voyage from Mandalay to Bagan and if you’ve seen the news today, that bridge lies in ruins. Feast your eyes on some remarkable photos that sum up that utterly amazing country and its beautiful people 😢