Canoeing the Continent: Week Nine Blog

This week we have settled into some appropriately German efficiency. We have found a rhythm on the upstream river Main and...

Canoeing the Continent: Week Eight Blog

After 54 days paddling we have come across a lot of different people. Three days ago we left the French-German border...

Canoeing the Continent: Week Seven Blog

The week started with our departure from the Rhone-Rhine Canal to join the River Rhine. The Rhine is the river we’d...

Canoeing the Continent: Week Six Blog

At the time when we noticed that day no. 40 had been and gone, it was not a big issue. In...

Canoeing the Continent: Week Five Blog

This week we moved past the one month marker. We’ve been paddling our canoe now for 36 days and not one...

Canoeing the Continent: Week Four Blog

Writing on the last rest day, we were ecstatic to have completed the Loire. We expected our first week of canals...

Canoeing the Continent: Week Three Blog

Having now completed three weeks of upstream canoeing, the first stage of our journey is over. We have finished with our...

Canoeing the Continent: Week Two Blog

We are now 160 miles into our 3000 mile expedition. We have been travelling now for two weeks and are over...

Canoeing the Continent: Week One Blog

Montsoreau, France. In six days just shy of 100 miles upstream from Nantes have been canoed. It was always the expectation...

Canoeing the Continent: The Introduction

Over the next four months, two students are set to canoe 3000 miles across Europe in a bid to paddle a...