Cathy Senecal
Rowing Your World – Meet Kathy Berezin
In a new series we are calling Rowing Your World, we will introduce you to some of the clients who join us on our trips. In this post, meet Kathy Berezin, who blends her love of rowing and love of travel regularly. We not only think Kathy is special for that reason—BUT also because her…
6 Reasons to Visit Germany’s Mosel Valley
First cultivated by the Romans, the Mosel Valley, with its tranquil namesake river, has long been considered one of the most romantic settings in Europe. At more than 500 kilometres and one of the Rhine’s longest tributaries, the Mosel River flows through France, Luxembourg and western Germany, where it joins the Rhine at Koblenz. The…
Strange and Unusual Things on the Water
As lovers of rowing, we love all things water, whether floating on water, propelling one’s self over water, and even being underwater. In tribute, we bring you a compendium of strange happenings on water that will brighten your week. Last year, we humoured you with some strange situations in this post: A Stroke of Lightness,…
Travelling in Uneasy Times
I sat on the riverbank in Kisangani shelling groundnuts and drinking cool beer in the equatorial heat while waiting to board a freighter down the Congo River through Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo. A gaggle of skinny gap-year “adventurers” spilled from their vehicle and came to chat. “How did you get here?” they…
Let’s Do It for the Reds, Whites and Blacks
You may not have noticed this before, but wine and rowing have a boatload of similar terms. Letting a wine breathe, for example, is the process of opening wine up by introducing air, thereby improving the wine’s character. Taking oxygen deeply into our lungs to breathe effectively improves our rowing, and arguably, our character. Legs…
