Lobelia goes to the party

H20 is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and we were delighted to be invited to the party weekend in September.
The occasion was marked with a parade of boats followed by a fabulous party in the Gare d'Eau.
Lobelia was bedecked with flags and bunting and looked splendid from the waterline up. (Her bottom needs cosmetic work - something I fully understand).
She joined the flotilla for a sail-past. Dan and Callum and their friend Clare dressed up as wolves and pirates and howled like dogs and staged mock battles on the deck. Other boaters returned the calls and the cacophony of boat horns, ship's bells and howling was unusual and rather unsettling for stowaway stray cat Tigra who paced frantically through our galley.

View from Lobelia's back cabin roof

Some of our neighbours' barges

Wolf Dan in full howl

Somebody is following us...

We returned Lobelia to her mooring and Tigra beat a hasty retreat to dry land.

Cycled back into town to the party at the Gare d'Eau which was excellent and filled with laughter, good wine and some hilarious performances from an alternative band.

The clarinet player in the tree receives a helping hand.