Rain or fog\u2026 the weather\u2019s taking a dive? Aboard your self-drive boat, bad weather doesn\u2019t mean a bad holiday. Quite the opposite, in fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lounging on the deck of your canal barge in your swimsuit and sunglasses \u2013 that\u2019s the stuff dreams are made of. But in Brittany, or Ireland, or\u00a0Holland<\/a>, or even on the\u00a0Canal du Midi<\/a>\u00a0in autumn, nobody is safe from the occasional shower or stretch of dull weather! One thing to note is that these days, all Locaboat boats can be driven without getting wet. The cockpit may be inside (as is the case on the P\u00e9nichettes Classiques\u00ae<\/sup> and Terrasses models), or outside but protected by a roof that can be closed to keep off the rain (as is the case for the Linssen models). Or you may have a double cockpit, inside and outside (as is the case on P\u00e9nichettes Flying Bridge\u00ae<\/sup> models). So you don\u2019t need to get those yellow oilskins out: you can drive along happily without feeling a single drop of rain. It\u2019s true that in bad weather you can\u2019t dive in, or go for\u00a0long cycle rides along the towpaths<\/strong>, but it gives you a good opportunity to visit the museums, go to the local cinema, or stay on the boat and rediscover the pleasures of a nice cup of tea, making pancakes, and having long conversations. There are fair-weather sailors who like to set the world to rights, or have a communal sing-song, or meditate. You start looking back over the past together, and remembering why you\u2019re there, still together, after all these years. Isn\u2019t that a lovely way to strengthen the bonds of love and friendship? Another nice thing you can do is to play board games.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter if you forgot to bring a pack of playing cards: you can buy cards at every Locaboat base. Then the shower stops… and the sun comes out. Go on, poke your nose outside. There\u2019s a wonderful fresh earthy smell, of leaves, and nature. Breathe deeply. You can relax; here\u2019s the sunshine after the rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rain or fog\u2026 the weather\u2019s taking a dive? Aboard your self-drive boat, bad weather doesn\u2019t mean a bad holiday. Quite the opposite, in fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-19884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-tricks","tag-unexperienced"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19885,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19884\/revisions\/19885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}