I'm pretty excited today because this has arrived in the post. I recognise that logo
on it, it's all the way from France, and I think I know what's in it.
Ah yes, this is pretty much what I expected. You see, this is the flag. The VNF Voies Navigables
de France is the French Waterway authority. Thats that, and unless I'm very much mistaken
this is a second flag, a bigger flag. Ye ho ho, wow. Ye that is good, and let me just
see, there's a card in here. Might need my glasses on. Ah Julie, Merci pour les drapeuux.
I'd love to let you think that I knew a little bit of French. I did once, but not any more.
I cheated! Merci pour les drapeuux.
And thanks very much to Patric. Because Patrice helped to organise getting these flags. You
see ever since we had the boat in France we've always flown two flags on it. That was my
old VNF flag and as you can see it's kind of, it's flittered away to nothing. But we
flew that very proudly on one side of the mast and we fly the Irish Inland Waterways
Association flag on the other side of the mast. But now I have my new VNF flag so I
can fly that and wow I'm looking forward to that.
There we are, proudly flying our VNF flag once again.
I had the intention of washing the boat today but, to be honest with you it's freezing cold,
it's going to take me an hour an hour and a half maybe two hours there's no way I'm
going to do that in these temperatures. Ah that can wait for another day. I think a better
idea would be to go in and have a cup of tea.
That's the way I like it, lots of milk!
Ah that's better than washing a boat.
Well guys this is more or less where we hope to go for the summer. This is Athlone town
here, this is Lough Ree, we'd like to get in here into the inner lakes. You may remember
we did a vlog in there last year. Ah Hodson bay is over here, this is Inney Bay, it's
another magical, magical spot altogether. Rindoon Point, one of my favourite places
on the entire lake, we'll surely get to pull in there. We'll head on up, up, up. We'l probably
go into Lecarrow just over there, we'll probably go into Lecarrow at some stage. There's a
good pub there, also a very good pub here in the inner lakes, it's called the Lough
Ree Inn. Up the top of the lake then, we'll come up here to Lanesborough. It goes back
into river for a while and then we go on up to Tarmonbarry that's just here, through lough
Forbes. Then we turn it over. And we turn it this a way. And then we'll come up along
here that's Dromod. We haven't gone in here with a vlog yet. And this is one of the nicest
spots on the river, this is Carnadoe, it is really really beautiful, eh there's another
quiet little pub in there it does food I think at weekends anyhow. Eh we'll probably try
to get in there, depending on the weather I suppose. That's the thing about boating,
is you know, you don't really have a plan, this is our basic plan but like everything
changes. So we'll head on up here through Carrick on Shannon. This is the River Boyle
on up to Lough Key, but we're going to head up this a way. We'll go up to Leitrim which
we were in last year and then we're going to head up the Ballinamore Canal. Which is
another chart. Hang on one second. So as I said to you it's another chart and this is
that chart. This is Leitrim here, we'll go on up through Kilclare, through a few locks,
this is Lough Scur. The Ballinamore canal is not canal, well it is canal, it's canal
but it's also lake it's also river and it's generally lots of little lakes linked together.
We have to turn it over. And we continue on here this is St John's lough and this is Kitty
Barton lough. It's a lovely spot to drop anchor. You come around here around the Ballinamore
Golf course and into the town of Ballinamore. We'll hopefully head on up here this is Lough
Garadice and another really nice spot there's a lovely mooring in here called Houghton's
Shore. And there's more, hang on. I said to you there is more and there is, there we are,
that's lough Garadice there's Haughtings shore. Come out of Haughtings shore and you've more
beautiful little lakes it's sort of marsh land here. And then we head on down here.
And when we get to this point we have to turn it over.
So here we are. Now this dark line here is the border with Northern Ireland, and as you
can see most of it, or quite a lot of it runs down along the centre of the river. Which
is fun. And then we come out here and we're into lough Erne. Now I have the charts of
Lough Erne but I haven't brought them with me today. So I can't show you them. But we
hope to head up north through Enniskillen and on up to the little town the beautiful
town of Belleek in County Fermanagh. So guys that is it for this week. I'll leave you with
the sight of my lovely VNF flag and thanks very much to Patrice & Julie for arranging that
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