The Oxford Canal beat the Danube and the Styx to be awarded the world-famous City Barge Autumn Tour for the 2025 season.
After hours of meticulous planning, the tour was almost derailed by a last-minute participant, Storm Benjamin, but due to a stroke of planning genius, the unwelcome gate-crasher was thwarted by starting a day early on Wednesday, 22nd October.
Perfect weather, Venetian guests, four Venetian sandolos on the Thames and generous participation by City Barge members made for a truly unforgettable event.
And what a banger it was! Our pre-dawn arrival at the boathouse to set up breakfast and ready the boats saw the sunrise poised to be perfect for the oncoming celebrations; it certainly didn’t disappoint!
This trip is advertised as ”training for the Vogalonga”, but some of us are now too ancient to actually consider the 32 km non-competitive rowing marathon. I cannot believe that this holiday gets better every year, as the rowing is always accompanied by parties and prosecco.
Annual General Meeting Minutes: 2 Feb 2025
As with every training tour to Venice, Day Zero began with a rinfresco party!
This time it was on the Fondamenta della Sensa in Cannaregio, kindly hosted by Jeremy and Bev – a great start to a fabulous week.
We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Richard Bailey.
The City Barge Annual General Meeting was held on February 4, 2023 at Eynsham Village Hall, with 30 members of the association in attendance.
Committee Meeting Minutes: 21 March 2023
Committee Meeting Minutes: 23 January 2023
Committee Meeting Minutes: 23 Oct 2023