Penny and Dave headed off to Europe in April 2010. As well as sightseeing in France and visiting Bernadette and Liz in the Channel Islands, we bought an old 107 year old barge. We will use it to explore France and possibly the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and other parts of Europe.
Many of the people living in the Lock Keeping cottages have an erxcellent sense of humour, as illustrated here.
The VNF owns thousands of Ecluses and associated cottages. They lease them at a "peppercorn" rate in exchange for the lessees undertaking renovation and modernisation.
Sometimes, the people living in the cottages are also lock keepers (Eclusiers) but they might also be artists, retired, rent cycles, run art galleries, run restaurants etc.
The Kerr adventurers are off again. After several forays into the Pacific, we are off to Europe to explore the Canals and Rivers of several countries- starting in France given that two of our daughters live in the Channel Islands, close to the Coast of France.