October 2015 – goodshipcalliope

Living aboard in Portsmouth Harbour – October

I can hardly believe that we have already been here for 4 weeks! In some ways it is strange to be here – the choppy sea instead of the calm river; the gulls and fish instead of the coots and herons; the warships, ferries and yachts instead of the narrow boats, barges and sculls. ButContinue reading “Living aboard in Portsmouth Harbour – October”

Calliope goes to sea

Our voyage from the Thames to Portsmouth Harbour [There are far too many good blogs about barges and their voyages for me to compete, so this is just a snippety illustrated version of our (very exciting for us) journey.] . September 22 : last night on the non-tidal Thames Our last night, forContinue reading “Calliope goes to sea”