Narrow Dog to Carcassonne : Two Foolish People, One Odd Dog, an English Canal Boat..and the Adventure of a Lifetime

The hilarious and true story of two senior-citizens and their whippet dog who hatch, plan and carry out a "lunatic scheme" to sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the South ofFrance. "From the Hardcover edition." ISBN : 9780385342087 The hilarious true story of two pensioners and their whippet who sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the South of France in a narrowboat ...'WE COULD BORE OURSELVES TO DEATH, DRINK OURSELVES TO DEATH, OR HAVE A BIT OF AN ADVENTURE...'When they retired Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrowboat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean, together with their whippet Jim. They took advice from experts, who said they would die, together with their whippet Jim.On the Phyllis May you dive through six-foot waves in the Channel, are swept down the terrible Rhone, and fight for your life in a storm among the flamingos of the Camargue.You meet the French nobody meets - poets, captains, historians, drunks, bargees, men with guns, scholars, madmen - they all want to know the people on the painted boat and their narrow dog.You visit the France nobody knows - the backwaters of Flanders, the canals beneath Paris, the heavenly Yonne, the lost Burgundy Canal, the islands of the Saone, and the forbidden ways to the Mediterranean.Aliens, dicks, trolls, vandals, gongoozlers, killer fish and the walking dead all stand between our three innocents and their goal - many-towered Carcassonne. The author describes how, after they retired, he and his wife sailed their canal narrowboat across the English Channel to the South of France, accompanied by their whippet Jim, despite warnings from experts on the dangers of the voyage, offering an account of the difficult trip and the colorful characters, experiences, and culture they encountered along the way to Carcassonne. Original. 25,000 first printing. The hilarious and true story of two senior-citizens and their whippet dog who hatch, plan and carry out a "lunatic scheme" to sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the South of France.From the Hardcover edition. The hilarious and true story of two senior-citizens and their whippet dog who hatch, plan and carry out a "lunatic scheme" to sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the South of France. From the Hardcover edition