tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22788263124901792722024-03-06T01:07:56.988-08:00PuddlestoniaThe Puddle Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14493830333024856692noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2278826312490179272.post-37702821274521274732015-08-23T09:18:00.002-07:002015-08-23T09:18:56.201-07:00St Valliers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We travelled on our way fron Lyon quite quickly coming across our first Rhone lock. We waited for ages, about 30 minutes, for it to open and then once inside we waited another 25 minutes for the gates to shut!</div>
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This was one of the most shallow locks but to us stuck at the bottom of this great cavern it felt much deeper than its nine metres!</div>
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The scenery is really beginning to change and the buildings are definitely changing in style. It is becoming quite hilly, even mountainous in places and the air is beginning to smell more Meditteranean... That kind of warm air smell that hits you when you get off a plane after flying away on holiday from the UK!</div>
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We moored our first night away from Lyon at St Colomb, right by this tower. This 30 metre tower is all that remains from the 14th century fortifications built by King Philipe VI de Valois when he defeated St Colomb. The tower might be very old but it has a definite modern roof on it!</div>
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We both thought that this was a very pretty house although the picture doesn't really do it justice. the stonework had all been treated to look like marble, and the sculptured heads and metalwork made the exterior look really interesting.</div>
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After a night on the free moorings which were really good apart from the turbulence caused by an enormous commercial who ignored where he was supposed to be on the shipping lane and decided to go past us and through the wrong arch of the passerelle bridge we carried on our way.</div>
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The French are very proud of this nuclear power station. The waters of the Rhone cool its two 1,300kW reactors and they produce 18 billion kW each year, 10 times the consumtion of of the city of Lyon!</div>
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The scenery is just stunning, I would just love to be living in this beautiful chateau and gardens.</div>
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Although also some inevitable industrial stuff, such as this chemical works but it all adds to the scenery!<br />
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When we emerged from the 3rd lock, the weather began to get rather windy. The river opened out to large expanses of water with very choppy waves... it got windier and windier with waves breaking over the bows of the boat so I had to shut the front doors as the water was coming in! We had about 10 Km of this and we were both getting a bit anxious as we could not find suitable and available moorings! At last an empty pontoon at St Valliers came into sight and with difficulty in the strong wind we managed to tie up and secure the boat.</div>
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We have breathtaking scenery behind us!</div>
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We had a lovely night without much disturbance, we are so pleased that we found this pontoon which is just big enough for us. We decided to consult the weather before setting off, and very glad we had done this! We have stayed put today with the southerly wind gusting very strongly from time to time, and torrential downpours of rain. The forecast is for more of the same tomorrow so I suspect we will languish here for another day tomorrow.</div>
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This enormous commercial ship was very aptly named the 'Wasp'! and jolly annoying it was too with the speed it went past us causing great waves which dislodged our stuff inside the boat.</div>
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<br />The Puddle Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14493830333024856692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2278826312490179272.post-46787622679057109612015-08-21T09:02:00.003-07:002015-08-21T09:02:43.857-07:00Lyon!We booked a two night stay here at Lyon but we extended it to three as it was just so lovely here! We went by tripper boat up to the centre of town and then spent nine hours exploring Lyons and then took the boat back again.<br />
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The new museum at the Confluence<br />
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Our moorings at the Halte Fluviale, behind us the French equivalent of Bluewater!</div>
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a typical French square where we people watched and had a beer.</div>
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The two rivers , Saone and Rhone, visible from the Basilica</div>
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The funicular railway which took us up to the basilica.</div>
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The Basilica,</div>
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A mosaic wall, one of many inside the Basilica</div>
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Entrance to one of the secret passages connecting the roads in the old town, part of the silk routes.</div>
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Marble Statue by the courts of Justice.</div>
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John cooling off in the fountains.</div>
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Inside one of the best wool shops ever!</div>
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Beautiful stained glass window at St Viziers</div>
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Inside St Viziers</div>
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A weird boat!</div>
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Sculptured heads at the beginning of Lyon</div>
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A pagoda?</div>
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Our first view of the Basilica when we arrived in Lyon.</div>
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The spot where the Saone joins the Rhone, the 'Confluence'</div>
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Exiting our first Rhone Lock!!!</div>
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Our moorings at Macon were not very nice but we didn't want to pay 30 euros a night to stay in the Port de Plaisance..It was also a long way from the town. We decided to spend two nights here to get some provisions and to look around the shops. Of course it was 15th August, a bank holiday in France so very few shops were open! We found this interesting signpost by the Port where the monstrous River Cruisers dock.....</div>
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This beautiful church was locked so we couldn't see inside!</div>
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We continued Sunday 16th on our way taking in the sights of this lovely town from the river.</div>
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Some of the houses are very beautiful. We spent the next night at a free Halte Fluviale at St Romain des Isles. That night at gone midnight a huge hotel ship went past us at such a speed that they broke our stern rope. Fortunately the bow rope held, we also had our anchor down and were chained at the bows, but our stern got sucked out into the river caused by the monsters speed......</div>
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The next night we found this lovely rustic mooring right by some beautiful woods. Sadly Patrice took himself off his lead and got lost in the woods. We spent a horrid two hours calling and searching when it was beginning to get dark....and there he was by the boat drinking from the river. I enticed him in with a promise of 'ham' and I think we were both very glad to see each other!</div>
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We left St jean de Losne on 11th August together with our friends on Gesina and set off on our mighty task of navigating the Saone then the Rhone on our quest to the Mediterranean.</div>
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Unwelcome sharing of the staircase up to Pouilly Tunnel with two tiny boats that did surprising things in each lock..they didn't really know what they were doing and it kept us on our toes all the way! Eventually we got to Pouilly and after a while met up with our friends Maggie and Ni on Gesina and Patrice was happy to share his dinner bowl with their dog 'Tashi'!</div>
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We set off through the Pouilly tunnel on our fial leg towards the mighty Rivers of the Soane and the Rhone. John had been leap frogging the car along with the boat which meant that we didn't go far each day. The Burgundy was very familiar to us but we gloried in these beautiful surroundings with the weather gettinh progressively hotter. We stayed close to Dijon at Plombieres as we had nasty experiences of staying in the port at Dijon. Here we topped up the boat with food, and met up with Elodie, Jean-Matthieu and beautiful little Clemence.</div>
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We left Flogny and continued on to Tonnere. A bit of a miserable journey as it rained and we could see from the canal that the river Armancon was in full flood.</div>
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These poor cattle were stuck up in the corner of their field surrounded by floodwater. We saw the Gendarmes and farmers trying to rescue them, it was very reminiscent of two years ago when we were in exactly the same place when the floods came!</div>
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This was one of the trucks there to rescue the cattle.</div>
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This heron wasn't at all phased by our presence, they usually fly away when we get close to them!</div>
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We went past this beautiful chateau, but by the time I located the camera we were almost past it!</div>
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The 2 above photos were taken at Tonnere where the river was very angry and had flooded the town blocking our way to the shops.You can see that the water was nearly at the top of the arches of the bridge.</div>
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At Tonnere we were visited by our good friends from Auxerre, Marie-Noelle, Samuel and their grandchildren and daughter in law. We had a lovely day with Raclette and chocolate cake for lunch. We had promised a trip in the barge but because of the water levels it was not allowed.</div>
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John and Samuel on the fitness apparatus by the port (next door to the childrens playground there are several machines for adults to use, great fun and we pretended we were getting fit....)</div>
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Left to right:- Melvil, Salome, John, Me, Samuel and Marie-Noelle.</div>
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The magnificent Lavoir at Tonnere.</div>
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A duck nest right by the childrens playground....hope they survive!</div>
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On the 10th May our other French friends came from Auxerre to see us, this time the sun was shining and the water levels were lower, so we took a bargeful up to Tanlay....</div>
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My lovely friend Johanna who cried when they went home because John won't be in Auxerre this winter......</div>
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Maxime pretending that he is the Captain!</div>
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A bit early for Father Christmas but this is obviously where he hangs out in the summer months!!</div>
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We stayed at Tanlay for a week, they provide us with free water and electricity and there is a fab pizza restaurant at the Quaiside. We ate there 3 times....not so good for our diets but very delicious! Patrice always keeps us company there, he is lazing by the tree in this picture.</div>
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The last time we were in the UK we got this "Doggyhut"trailer for Patrice so he can come with us when we go for cycle rides. It taxed John greatly in putting it together but eventually it was accomplished.<br />
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Patrice has a feather pillow inside covered by a faux fur mat, he really enjoyed his view of the countryside from his new trailer. As you can see it arrived with a broken left back reflector..made in china I guess but thankfully not OF china...... We cycled up into the surrounding area and found this 12th century monastery, with no sign of any occupancy now and it was surrounded by gates and barbed wire.</div>
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We wondered who had chiselled this cross into the stone, guess this is medieval "tagging"!</div>
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Patrice settled down here, he loved the plant he's lying in and kept rubbing his face into it!</div>
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Beautiful fields of yellow rape, we had the whole area to ourselves, it was so peaceful.</div>
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This was our moorings at Tanlay. moored behind us is a hotel barge "C'est La Vie" where rich americans pay $7,000 each for six nights aboard....</div>
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We are now at Lezinnes, but are setting off again tomorrow. We are really hanging around as we have to go back to the UK at the end of May for a couple of weeks as John's Dad is having an operation so we don't want to go too far before that. we leave you with this proud Mummy duck and her 7 babies who she is teaching to beg for bread!</div>
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We moved on after two nights in Migennes having visited their excellent market first, it was very dusty and rather smelly at times due to the Sewage farm...... We next moored at Brienon, opposite the Port de Plaisance there as they wanted 15 euros a night without any electric or water, that was extra! We had lovely moorings there and stayed a few nights, visiting a motocross championship on the sunday which looked very dangerous!</div>
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Our moorings at Brienon.</div>
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Two young dutch fishermen camped behind us in the pouring rain and caught this monster Carp weighing 19.3Kg!</div>
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The boats still moored in Auxerre</div>
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!6th April:- we have spent the day cleaning, me the inside and John the outside, ready for us to set off to pastures new tomorrow. We were all set to go, and indeed had untied ourselves when we realised that we had no power..... a quick scramble gave us a turn on a moored boat and we gradually managed to pull alongside "Wanderlust" who were going to make this first part of the journey with us. Jean-Philippe climbed aboard and pronounced our morse cable broken. This was duly replaced but by then Wanderlust had gone and it was already 17.30hrs so we decided to stay put for the night. When we awoke the following morning the heavens had opened and looked set for the day so we delayed again.<br />
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At last on 18th April all was well and we set off in glorious sunshine. An uneventful journey followed seamlessly and we moored at Gurgy. We were just going to stay the night, but we heard that there was a Vide -Grenier here the next day so we stayed for two nights.<br />
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Today, 20th April we left Gurgy after lunch and now we are moored in the wild just before Ecluse No 9 'La Graviere'. We had waited 15 minutes for this to open but apparently this lock is being automised, so passage through is limited. No problems we will have a night here and Patrice is just loving the greenery. Its a wonderful sunny place to watch the sun go to bed!The Puddle Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14493830333024856692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2278826312490179272.post-89164857589304777592014-08-07T08:56:00.001-07:002014-08-07T08:56:23.484-07:00Ouzouer-sur-Trezee, Canal de Briare.We left Cours-les-Barres after the weekend and moved on down the canal. We were going to stay at Marigny-les-Aubigny but it was really depressing, looking more like a boat graveyard so we moved on to Beffes where there were reportedly new moorings.. These had apparently been constructed for the bumper boats with finger pontoons so we moored "greenbank" style alongside a lovely ornamental park. We had some bad thunder storms that night but got on our way again the next day and ended up at La Chapelle-Montlinard, mooring quite close to a silo. We just managed to moor before the heavens opened and we had a torrential thunderstorm!!! We decided to stay a few days as the facilities were good and apparently free and we wanted to stock up with food from the supermarkets in La Charite, a nearby town.<br />
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The town had a huge brocante and market on the wekend after our arrival so we stayed at La Chapelle in order to attend both. The weather alternated between downpours and really hot days so I managed to get all the washing done before we moved on again.<br />
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We moved on as soon as we had a reasonable morning and moored at Champalay where John went for a walk with Patrice and returned excitedly to the boat saying he'd found a Pub!</div>
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This was the "Pub" at Champalay, but we were the only customers! We sat outside and had a bottled beer which was at least cold!</div>
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Patrice was disappointed that they didn't do "Mouse flavoured crisps" but sat up to the table with us!! The owner asked us if she could borrow him as they were troubled by mice, suddenly we didn't mind that they only served bottled beer.....!!</div>
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Some of the locks are really pretty.</div>
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This was meant to be of Sancerre at the top of the hill, but by the time I found the camera we had gone past it.....</div>
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Our peaceful mooring at Boulleret, the closest we could get to Cosne Cours-sur-Loire.</div>
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We spent a night at Boulleret so we could go into the town as I had found that they had a Phildar wool shop there, and I wanted to post a parcel of loom band bracelets to my grandaughters which I had made for them. The cycle trip into town was really horrid and rather dangerous, and a long way from the canal. We topped up with ice cream and moved on during the evening and ended up at Lere who kindly supplied us with free water and electricity! We moored in front of a Dutch boat who had been really rude to us at Cours-les-Barres and despite staying last weekend there, we didn't see anyone from that boat, could they have been hiding from us..??!!</div>
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The church is kept locked at Lere but we managed to get on an escorted tour which took us into the crypt first. It is said that St Martin's body was kept here before he was buried at Orleans cathedral.</div>
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The interior was beautiful with magnificent stained glass windows.</div>
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We both agreed we would love to live in this house! There was a free concert last saturday night, which we went to. It was well attended with an excellent turnout, here is John buying our beer!</div>
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The concert was delivered by this duo, but we decided that he was performing with his Mum! She really was too mature to be doing raunchy songs (with actions!), but most of them were sung in English. The equipment broke at 22.30hrs so we returned to the boat, having had a very interesting time! We continued on our way last Monday and stopped at Belleville, a town which is famous for its nuclear power station which allowed visits!</div>
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Our moorings, the nuclear power station can be seen in the background.</div>
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We cycled there (that's John on his bike) and spent an interesting time in their visitors centre, but no photos were allowed.</div>
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We were a little disconcerted to see the Gendarmes behind us back at the mooring but they were just on a "jolly" with their families.</div>
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There were alot of people walking over the aquaduct and it made us feel as though we were animals in the zoo as everyone stopped and stared at us, taking photos etc.. They could not have seen many boats passing this way for a while! The weather was not kind to us though and it just poured down. We were pulled out of our moorings by a tripper boat so we decided to move on even though it was raining hard. After a couple more locks we arrived at Ouzouer-sur-Trezee where we found the port was full but just managed to squinge onto the grass verge before the port.</div>
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Patrice was glad to get off the boat and celebrated his freedom by catching a poor unsuspecting mouse! So that is where we are tonight, once more the town is providing free facilities, but there is very little here for us to pay them back.</div>
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The port at Nevers</div>
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This duckling, and its siblings, was floating on the piece of plastic but by the time I had geared up my camera they had all jumped off!!</div>
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We had similar trouble with the last lock before the canal it decided not to work for us. This time a very nice man (lovely looking too...!) came and operated the lock for us but I had to get off the barge and then get on again without their being a proper mooring place, but eventually we got through.</div>
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We moored in the wild for the night and Patrice took this photo opportunity to look really cool with his beer and guitar!!</div>
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Wednesday we moved on and went over the spectacular aquaduct over the River Loire. It was 32 degrees and people were paddling on the man made beach below us. We entered a massive double lock which dropped us over 9 metres, my rope ran out in the second lock!<br />
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The beach on the Loire</div>
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Looking in the opposite direction, the Loire is a really massive river.</div>
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Inside the double lock.</div>
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At last we leave and moor at Guetin, a lovely quayside but it was boiling hot and although trees have been planted they are not really big enough to give us shade. They are building a Capitainerie here but at the moment the only facilities here are dustbins and bollards! We wanted to see the famous round lock on the disused Lorrans Canal but it was too hot for the six kilometre cycle, so waited for the evening for this. We left the boat at 8.30pm when it was beginning to cool from the 34 degrees of the day.</div>
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We cycled along the towpath with some beautiful bridges to look at along the way.<br />
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At last we found the lock, an extraordinary site, with a wonderful house overlooking it. sadly they had had a breach with the River Allier so it was all fenced off but we went in anyway after our long cycle ride!</div>
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Building works filling the breech with the River Allier</div>
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This official turned up whilst we were snooping around, he didnt seem to mind that we were inside the fence, and suggested that we cycled another 4 kilometres to see one of the most beautiful villages in France. So on we cycled!</div>
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This village was amazing, like something out of a Harry Potter film, or a Disney film set, we have never seen anything like it!<br />
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This was the villagers view from their back gardens, the River Allier.</div>
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It was dark when we returned to the boat at 10:45pm but we had a beautiful sunset. Yesterday we moved, quite early in the morning for us as it was another really hot day, too hot to stay at a quay with no shade. we moored up again here at Cours-les-Barres, one of the prettiest we've seen to date. They have given us free water and electricity (although this was well hidden, but we found it!) and even showers......</div>
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......and toilets, though not really as we Britishers expect from a toilet! Still it was very clean.</div>
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Patrice found a cool leafy bower.......</div>
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.......and John found a cooling footspa!</div>
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We didnt go much on the face in the fountain though!</div>
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Patrice is just sleeping through this very hot weather, thank goodness we don't have fur coats!!!</div>
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Our moorings in the port at Nevers</div>
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We thought our boat was untidy....??!!</div>
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I think going down this water slide would result in an unhappy ending...!!</div>
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The streets are quaint but full of necessary one way systems.</div>
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The Palais de Justice</div>
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Inside Nevers Cathedral.</div>
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12th Century frescoes on the ceiling</div>
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Beautiful 17th Century sculpture in the crypt.</div>
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Ancient clock and very impressive pulpit.</div>
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A fantastic building showing 'La Belle Epoque'</div>
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Another quaint street, but no cars...Obviously!!</div>
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These buildings originally ran along the side of the canal which has now disappeared and been replaced by a very busy dual carriageway.</div>
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I find my favourite Napoleon everywhere I look!</div>
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We had heard that you could see the body of St Bernadette in her coffin, so the next day we rubbed our sore feet and set off again to find her. Apparently she was a poor girl who was raised in Lourdes where she witnessed seeing the Virgin Mary no less than 18 times! She was made a saint after they dug up her body (not sure why) to find that she had not decomposed at all. She now lies in a glass coffin inside her own chapel, apparently her face and hands were covered in a thin film of wax but no preserving has been undertaken. She's been like this for about 90 years and still shows no sign of decomposing.... (This is a photo of a postcard as it is forbidden to use cameras inside the chapel)</div>
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The shrine built to St Bernadette in the grounds of the huge space devoted to her.</div>
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On our way to hire the car (another marathon walk, it takes 20 minutes to cross over the Loire and get to the entrance of the town and the industrial centre is the other side of this town..) we saw this car being decorated ready for the owner's wedding later in the day!</div>
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having successfully obtained the car on Sunday we set off with some trepidation in our ugly little french car ( a Fiat Panda Hi-back). The journey wasnt too bad but it took us two hours to drive to the party. Sadly the weather was not kind and despite there being beautiful ample grounds we had to stay inside their marquee as the rain oured all day.</div>
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We had delicious food and of course copious wine!</div>
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We met Marie-Noelle's new daughter in law who will make her a granny again in december.</div>
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After the main courses were finished Barbara (left) and Marie-Noelle (right) put on some funny sketches. Of course it was all in french but I managed to understand some of it!</div>
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John sent the youngsters dancing.....</div>
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Marie-Noelle told a lovely childrens story about 'who did this poo on my head?' a french story which is similar to the duck story in UK who asks 'Are you my Mummy?'</div>
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The children loved it and sat mesmerised!</div>
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Salome (Barbara's daughter) did a little sketch too and was not at all embarrased.</div>
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The people who the party was all about Marie- Noelle (left), Barbara (centre) and Samuel (right)</div>
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We waved goodbye at 7pm after 6 hours of french my brain was frazzled, and I drove us to Auxerre where we stayed the night with our good friends Maggie and Nigel on their boat 'Gesina'. The good people of Auxerre celebrated by putting on a huge firework display for us right by the boat (it was their 14th July celebrations)! The next day we waved goodbye at 11am and drove back to Nevers. Patrice disgraced himself by getting out the night before leaving John and Nigel scrabbling around in the dirt trying to catch him....</div>
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Yesterday we returned the car and then we went to a vide grenier passing by this magnificent war memorial.<br />
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The ancient workings left by the canal which used to be here. Our moorings are behind this on what was canal! However time to move on now, no more news to tell you!</div>
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My Saturday night treats from John didn't help the dieting but the Black Forest nougat was absolutely delicious and I managed to make it do two nights.</div>
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A very proud Mother and Babies, who hoped we had some bread for them but were sadly disappointed.</div>
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These two pictures show another storm approaching....!!</div>
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We only travelled a short distance from Champvert as there was a mooring right alongside a huge hypermarket, and we were in dire need of provisions and fuel! After two nights there we moved on, out of the Nivernais Canal and onto the Loire at Decize where we encountered our first 'rope' lock of this year. You have to pull the rope to activate the lock!<br />
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The new port at Decize, costing 12 euros a night plus fees for water and electricity.. needless to state we moved on!</div>
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This lock had carefully sculptured the bushes to make the name of the lock!</div>
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We moored here at Fleury-sur-Loire for 3 nights, the charges were reasonable and we had a delicious dinner at the Quai side restaurant.</div>
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We had a couple of nights at a 'wild mooring' before yesterday making our way to Nevers where we plan to spend about a week. We were greeted by another rope lock at the entrance to a small branch of canal which leads to Nevers.<br />
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So we are moored in the harbour, there is more inclement weather forecast but with museums etc to visit, and shops to shop in, we don't mind at all!</div>
<br />The Puddle Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14493830333024856692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2278826312490179272.post-34510028973271586152014-07-08T03:43:00.002-07:002014-07-08T03:43:26.711-07:00Cercy-la-TourWe left Chatillon-en-Bazois last Monday 23rd June. We were going to leave earlier but John decided to remodel his face on Saturday night so we stayed a bit longer whilst he recovered. our moorings there were such that we had to use our gangplank to access the land, and we had not realised that it had become warped by all the hot weather recently. John stepped onto it, not quite centrally, and it rocked and tipped him into the canal. Unfortunately he fell onto the chrome railings around the back of the boat and a chrome hook went through his lip. He also gashed his chin badly. I didn't hear him fall but I did hear his call for help... He looked like Bride of Dracula with his white shirt rapidly turning red! I steri-stripped it and put on a dressing but it was replaced several times and eventually it stopped bleeding after a few hours. He flatly refused to go to the hospital... Still it is healing now but he can't eat much, its doing his diet the world of good!!<br />
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We passed through some really pretty locks where the cottage owners had made a real effort to make their little spot of France very pleasing to the eye.<br />
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Our lock keeper was travelling with us as did the locks and we were surprised to see her stop by the tow path wildly gesticulating up into the sky... After a few moments we saw what she was pointing at, some storks had made their nest at the top of a dead tree and were in residence, Mum, Dad and two babies! A very unusual sight!</div>
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The town is dominated by an enormous Madonna, built at the top of the hill overlooking the town. It was quite a steep climb but we were amply rewarded by the panoramic views from the top.<br />
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The church sat in a huge empty square, which also had a lovely water fountain, but there was little evidence of the people of the town.<br />
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Our friends Katie and Jim.</div>
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<br />The Puddle Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14493830333024856692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2278826312490179272.post-24705854166673165412014-06-20T03:59:00.000-07:002014-06-20T04:04:27.518-07:00Hottest day of the year.We left our quiet little mooring and continued up the Nivernais. We stopped at Tannay for a provision stockup and set off gaily in the sunshine for a two kilometre cycle ride to the supermarket. To our horror it was all uphill, and a very steep hill at that! John's electric bike has broken, so he took his push bike. I had my electric bike but I was pulling the trolley for the shopping so it was quite an effort!<br />
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We spent the weekend moored here,this was our view from the top of our boat. Just miles of nothing, sheer bliss!</div>
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A very cute little traditional boat</div>
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On the hottest day of the year so far (34degrees) we went for a walk with Patrice into the Morvan Forest. it was really cool in there!</div>
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A dragonfly drying out his wings.</div>
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We moved on after the weekend and spent five nights at Chitry les mines waiting for a toilet filter to be sent from UK. We paid £20 for next day courier delivery but as you can see that didnt happen! We eventually left and went to the Locaboat depot at Corbigny, where we stopped for water. We had filled up and I went to pay when we decided we would moor here for the night, it was 4.30pm and we were quite tired. We had sat there for about 10 minutes when there was an enormous bang, an articulated lorry had hit the next bridge and knocked massive stones into the lock and onto the lock gates. If we HAD moved on we would have been going into the lock when this happened..... someone was definitely looking after us!!</div>
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Taken from the bridge you can see one block on the lock gate, the demolished part of the bridge and out of sight another block was in the lock!<br />
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Obviously they had had trouble like this before so made a miniature 'Avebury' of it!!</div>
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This was the next day when they called out 'Les Plongeurs' the diver section of the Pompiers. If you look carefully you can see a half naked fireman to the right of the red van!!!</div>
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Well we moved on after two nights there, they got the blocks out of the way and re-opened the waterway. They were much quicker than their projected 3-4 days!!The locaboat depot only charged us one night as they said it wasn't our fault we were stuck there. John has been working on our figurehead (picture below) It has made such a difference to the boat, people stop us and say how beautiful she is!! The figurehead has only one boob for obvious reasons...!!!!</div>
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As we left the boat depot we spied this metal plaque on the wall to commemorate our friend Jo Parfitt who died of leukaemia last year. He launched the Puddle Stone for us and was the instigator of much improvement work done on the Nivernais.<br />
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Peaceful mooring just before the start of the Sardy flight.</div>
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Strange sculptures at lock 16 where we had a cup of tea in the garden.<br />
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This was our mooring half way up the flight, Patrice caught loads of mice!</div>
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A photo of the outside of Lock 6 which is a cafe run by an ageing hippie.</div>
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Our pot of tea for two...not quite what we expected but it was delicious!</div>
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Finally we were at the top, this shows us the green light to say we can go through the three tunnels in front.<br />
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I thought this looked like something out of sleeping beauty, the views were breathtaking!</div>
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1st tunnel</div>
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2nd tunnel</div>
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At the top, we arrived at Baye. A windswept, unappetising, deserted Quai, alonside an Etang (a lake) the other side of the wall. We decided not to stay and moved on to Bazolles.</div>
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We had a warm drink of beer here..... I dont think they had a fridge! They sold sweets, fishing tackle (including live maggots) and sewing equipment all piled on a table together in a big jumble of stuff!</div>
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The gift shop (closed) which had many delights including a huge pottery pig in a swimming ring....for 6 euros!! we resisted the impulse to buy!!</div>
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3 hay bales piled on top of each other and then painted...this was a very strange village!</div>
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We moved on again and found ourselves at Mont et Marre, where Patrice encountered his first chicken....</div>
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The small town 'lavoir' filled by an ice-cold stream</div>
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Patrice loved the ice cold water</div>
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Eggs bought at the smallholding alongside the lock, we had them for our tea....delicious!!</div>
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We set off again yesterday afternoon and finally ended up here at Chatillon-en-Bazois. We had expected a decent sized town with perhaps a Lydl, but no...never mind we are staying for the weekend now.</div>
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The town walls with a lovely tower signalled that we had reached civilisation. We can now get a phone signal and internet, but sadly the aerial doesnt want to give us TV too!!<br />
<span id="goog_502424541"></span><span id="goog_502424542"></span><br />The Puddle Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14493830333024856692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2278826312490179272.post-62255942278989434802014-06-08T08:04:00.001-07:002014-06-08T08:04:18.467-07:00Clamecy - Cuncy- Villiers sur YonneWe arrived at Clamecy on 30.05.14, having the Quai to ourselves so John expertly reversed into a place where we could exit from with some eloquence.<br />
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Our first encountered swing bridge, this year.</div>
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Puddle Stone gracefully gliding underneath it.</div>
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A chateau by the side of the Nivernais.</div>
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For some reason this wont go the right way up, but having risen from the Yonne river to The Canal at Clamecy we were confronted by a low metal bridge which the lockeeper had to push open for us! We stayed at Clamecy for 3 nights but we were only charged for one night as they didnt arrive for payment after the first two! Our main reason for staying so long, apart from necessary food shopping, was a giant 'Brocante' which was held on the sunday. There were loads and loads of stalls but this is what we purchased:-</div>
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A giant red fruit pie, which sadly ,despite looking delicious, is in fact PLASTIC!</div>
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3 delightful glass sweeties...non fattening!</div>
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A metal statue of my favourite Napoleon.</div>
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The next day, Monday we moved and moored at a place called Cuncy (John wanted to stay there because he thought the name was funny!!) We stayed 3 nights by which time we discovered that we were not at Cuncy but at Villiers sur Yonne where there were electricity points for the boats but they were all broken.</div>
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I like to help with the lockgates and I'm looking cheerful here...</div>
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A mummy duck with two ducklings locked through with us!</div>
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Our moorings at Villiers sur Yonne</div>
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A beautiful little cottage.</div>
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The weather was very bad we had decided to leave so we stayed put, and HJohn spent the time making a figurehead for the bows.</div>
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Internet connection has been appalling so I'm having to do a major catchup this weekend so that we are up to date again. We left Cravant on the hottest day of the year so far (25degrees) having explored it thoroughly first we moved to Mailly-la-Ville.</div>
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John thought this might be a good place to buy?!!! Sad to see that they have just allowed this place to fall down in Cravant.</div>
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Lovely town gate to Cravant</div>
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We had a drink in the little bar opposite this exquisite fountain.</div>
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Some of the buildings there look like the ones in Auxerre.</div>
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we moved on to Mailly -la-Ville where I caught up on the washing and ironing, staying two nights and then moved to Mailly-le-Chateau. A lovely sleepy grass inlet in the middle of forest but to our delight they had installed more free water and electricity here so we spent a week there. We were joined intermittently by many boats some of which we had met before.<br />
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Our lovely wild mooring</div>
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Our friends Chris and Betsy on 'Maggie May'</div>
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The two men in my life , fast asleep following a tough evening discussing politics and playing boules.....</div>
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The weather threw some wild stuff at us, this thunder and lightening storm blew many things off the top of the boat!</div>
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This was a pilgrimage to Vezelay which consisted of hundreds of people walking past us in groups each bearing a cross....</div>
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The ton of Mailly le Chateau most of which is perched at the top of the hill, a very long steep walk!</div>
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We were overtaken (on the inside!!) by two holiday boats who had spent a very noisy night alongside us..</div>
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We finally left Auxerre on 9th April but it was in the knowledge that John had to return to the UK for a funeral so we weren't going to go far. We were pleasantly surprised to see that Bailly Quai had repaired its water and electricity supplies at an extremely reasonable price so we stayed there until 21st April when we returned to Auxerre so I would have the use of the car etc. whilst John was in the UK.<br />
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So finally after a week resettling into France, playing Boules with our friends in port (Phil and Julie on Philosophe and Kevin and Brigitte on Amazing Grace) and having a wonderful day out at Guedelon castle (which is being built as they would have built it in medieval times. they anticipate it will take 25 yrs to build, it was started in 2000, it is a wonderful day out and well worth seeing!)<br />
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with our French friends (Samuel and Marie-Noelle, who live in Auxerre ) we finally set off on our summer journey, AT LAST!!!<br />
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Playing Boules with our Australian friends, John giving friendly advice!!<br />
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Poor Julie suffered with the cold as she's used to Australian temperatures, I just had jeans and a tshirt on!!!<br />
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The empty space in Auxerre where we had spent the winter as usual!<br />
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Mind you the boat made its way to Bailly where we stayed another week ( the facilities are so cheap 1 euro a day) and treated our french friends to a quick outing on our boat.<br />
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A picnic by the boat before setting off with Samuel, Marie-Noelle, Barbara, Salome and Melvil, and John of course!</div>
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Well it was meant to be quick but we couldn't turn around for a while so it became a longer trip! John lost it completely in one of the locks as the lockeeper made us share the lock with another boat and it kept ramming us...thankfully the french children could not understand the english 'naughty' words......!!<br />
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We left Bailly last Wednesday and moved to Vincelles, just one lock , as it was near a supermarket and we stocked up on provisions. We were pleased to re-aquaint ourselves with friends John and Jill who share a barge here and also have a house in Vincelottes nearby. Yesterday we moved on to Cravant where Patrice fell in whilst we were mooring up. It was very very windy with the wind blowing us away from the shore, he leapt ashore on his lead and as the wind blew it dragged him into the canal! I watched, helplessly, as he did doggie paddle (or should it be cat paddle?) back to the boat and climbed back on board using one of the fenders! At least we know he can swim but it will be the lifejacket for him from now on!<br />
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Our friends John and Jill joined us last night for a drink and we had a lovely evening with them over several bottles of wine. We will stay here for today as the sun is shining and the mooring satisfactory!<br />
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A lovely rainbow at Bailly to finish with. I loved the clear mirror effect in the river.The Puddle Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14493830333024856692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2278826312490179272.post-74407096169960979722013-12-11T03:01:00.000-08:002013-12-11T03:01:33.291-08:0011.12.13. AUXERRESo sorry not to have updated for a couple of months but time has flown by, and here we are ready to return to the UK for our individual family Christmases...!!!<br />
Our return to Auxerre was not without problems as the current of the Yonne was very strong and we were going against it. We had had so much rain that the water was very high, bordering on the spring levels and a little bit scarey.....<br />
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The water was calm and still in the Burgundy canal of course, this was taken as we left Montbard.<br />
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This is some sort of dredger that went into the lock before us at Tonnere despite the fact that we had booked our time slot and meant we had to wait 45 mins while it locked through in the middle of the canal and in the pouring rain.......</div>
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This is the top of a double lock near the end of the canal, with pretty and well cared for gardens.<br />
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This is my view from the front of the boat near the bottom of the lock.</div>
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My view looking towards the wheelhouse and John.</div>
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At last the lock door opened and we passed through another unused lock joined to the last lock!</div>
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John was wearing his new veggie hat which I knitted for him after making several baby hats in this style for a friend who was having twins...he requested one like them so he got it!!</div>
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Beautiful sunset at Migennes</div>
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Fungus exhibition at Migennes, we had no idea there were so many different varieties, and available locally too! They were all fresh specimens!</div>
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And of course in true French style made to look so delicious, even if the contents were inedible!!</div>
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Two examples of topiary at Migennes.</div>
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We stayed at Migennes for five nights and then moved onto the Yonne with its fearsome current.</div>
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The current is pouring through the sluice gates making our entry into the lock rather hazardous.</div>
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The autumnal colours were quite breathtaking.</div>
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Back in our winter moorings, we had the usual nightly funfair for little children each evening until 8pm behind us</div>
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Our normal winter place with four stares of wood installed neatly on our roof.</div>
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Nigel and Patrice ( he's sporting his new bandanna harness!)</div>
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Maggie</div>
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We spent a lovely sunday with our old friends from last winter who decided to moor at Briare...we miss them in Auxerre but we had a lovely day and Patrice met his old friend Tashi again. They really get on very well together.</div>
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Our excitement at the coming festival season was marred somewhat by a young man jumping into the river from the pedestrian bridge at the port here last Saturday. He was seen to be swimming towards the hotel boat when he disappeared, and has not yet been recovered. The police frogmen have been out on a daily basis but they haven't found his body, the Yonne can be a very viscious river and is not to be taken lightly.....</div>
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However on a more cheerful note, Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to All, and here's Patrice in his seasonal hat to bring you good cheer.....we will be back next year!!!</div>
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Patrice made a new friend here, but we were amazed at the size of this dog!!! We then moved on to Auxonne which I really wanted to visit as it had a Napoleon museum.... however just my luck it was closed for refurbishment!!!</div>
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Our first glimpse of Auxonne.</div>
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The fantastic Medieval Market place.</div>
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Napoleon (My Hero) with me nestling below.....</div>
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The twisted spire of the church!</div>
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Triathlon runners</div>
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Our last weekend there, they held a triathlon, 20Km run, 1.5Km swim and 40Km cycle.. we felt quite worn out watching them.....!! It was a nice town but spoilt by the horrid people on speed boats and jetskis who went so fast that they knocked everything off our walls with the huge waves they set up. They even managed to break the glass on one of our pictures! We left there in the company of our new friends on Connemara on 9th September and returned to St Jean de Losne.</div>
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We spent one night moored under the bridge in a hotel boat space and then went to Blanquarts where we moored along side of our old friend from last winter, Gesina. Nigel was away in the south of France but Maggie was there. John went back to the UK leaving Patrice and me on the boat. I had Maggie's company for 4 nights but then Nigel reclaimed her so I had to say goodbye to them and brave it on my own!</div>
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Waving goodbye to Gesina.</div>
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Patrice's new friend "Scoobidoo"</div>
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Red Kites soaring in the sky above us this afternoon!</div>
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It took us about 5 hours to return to Dole but we went very slowly as it was such a baking hot day. We were pleased to finally enter this beautiful avenue of trees as we knew that Dole was just around the corner!<br />
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We were able to moor back in the port, where we had been before and started to clean up the boat ready for the visit from Dominy, Ross, and the two girlies.... We were sitting eating our supper last Thursday night when this appeared over the trees.......<br />
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Very very slowly they drifted away into the sunset, but it was a really wonderful sight. Mind you I have always fancied a balloon flight until I saw the programme on the TV about the Egyptian holiday one which burst into flames and dropped to the ground...... now I'm not so sure!!<br />
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Eventually the boat was spick and span and our much anticipated visit was under way. It was lovely to have them all to stay and we had a superb meal out together, which was supposed to be my treat but Ross beat me to the payment of the bill.... I owe them a meal when we go over at Christmas......<br />
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The girlies ate their meal without any fuss thank goodness and we had clean plates all round, nothing was left at all! Patrice enjoyed having the girls here so it was a very successful visit which ended all too soon. John and I are on a diet, we are following the 5:2 diet but thankfully the meal occurred on one of our eating days!! John has lost nearly a stone and I have lost 10lbs so it IS working, today is a diet day though and we are both starving!!<br />
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We are now preparing to move off, stocking up with food and fuel, as we know that there are not many opportunities for either on the canal ahead. We are hoping to head towards Auxonne and see the Napoleon museum there before John's return to the UK for his Dad's 90th birthday in the middle of September.<br />
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I hope the weather improves soon, it has become a little overcast and today it has had the temerity to rain!! the forecast is quite good for the end of the week though.<br />
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And finally, a cutie of Patrice, who had made himself very comfortable on our bed!!!!<br />
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The Puddle Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14493830333024856692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2278826312490179272.post-39943971453418569582013-08-19T08:33:00.003-07:002013-08-19T08:33:56.130-07:0019.08.13 Aveney to Besancon and back.....Well, I have been unable to write the blog since our last entry as we have been out of internet contact for the past month. We have been able to connect for brief periods of time but not long enough to catch up on our news! We also found that our phone didn't work either, but it was kind of good to be out of contact totally for a while!<br />
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We explored the town Avanne which was close to Aveney by bike and found this monolith showing the height of the water in periods of flooding over the last 100 years or so, it was quite a sobering thought!<br />
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Avanne is nestled into the mountainside with houses in very unusual places.<br />
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We finally moved on towards Besancon, as our fresh water was getting low in our tank . The scenery became quite dramatic with deep valleys and wide stretches of The Doubs river.</div>
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Our first view of Besancon, high above us the walled city came into view.<br />
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This is the tunnel entrance to Besancon, with a lock first. We were really looking forward to exploring the city. We moored at the Port de Plaissance but only stayed for two nights as it cost us nearly 20 euros per night, for what were really mediocre moorings. The crazies and yobbos came out at night and got drunk there every night sometimes until 4am so it wasn't very good there! We moved back to the other side of the tunnel where we found free moorings, without facilities, and stayed there for a week.<br />
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We were amused to see this canoe with so many people on it.......<br />
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but it all came to grief and capsized.......<br />
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once they had got back on there was a lot of baling to be done before they could set off again!!<br />
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Patrice remembered his summer transport arrangements and happily settled down each evening on the back of John's bike for his evening walk in the park.<br />
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This is the park we took him too with the fortifications in the background which were floodlit every night.<br />
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Some local entrepreneurs, practising their tight rope walking, this chap was very good.<br />
We have done some yo-yo-ing between Aveney and Besancon for about three weeks but then we finally started our return journey to Dole where we are meeting up with Dominy and family.<br />
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Patrice is steering the boat from the front and licking his lips at the fishes and birds....!!<br />
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Im very proud of this photo of a Heron in flight, I even managed to catch the water dripping off his feet!<br />
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We returned to the weir for another week where the weather was fab and we were the only boat for most of the time. This photo shows our idyllic mooring from above up on the old lock walls<br />
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This one is down by the weir, the beach is to the left of the picture down the sloping wall.<br />
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We discovered a load of fossils and beautiful mineral crystals inside some of the rocks on the beach.<br />
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The colours were really something.! But all good things must end so we carried on, on our journey towards Dole and stayed at Oselles for a night.<br />
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This is Oselles high street....!!! The church has the typical roof to be found in this part of France, they are really quite beautiful.<br />
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Our moorings in the wild at Oselles. We cycled in to their 'Plage' that evening as it was a Saint's day in France and they put on a wonderful firework display which cost us 1 euro each to get in! Money very well spent!</div>
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As usual a cute picture of Patrice to finish....</div>
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At Thoraise there is a tunnel which has a curtain of water at the beginning and end of the tunnel. The water is turned off using our electrical lock opener gizmo, but you can see the water still flowing at the other end of the tunnel as we entered!<br />
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It has an amazing light show on the roof of the tunnel too.<br />
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At the exit there is a lovely little Madonna statue set into the rock face.<br />
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Huge open stretches of river</div>
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A derelict castle high up on the mountainside.</div>
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Mr Heron watching our boat very warily..!</div>
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We entered a huge double lock, through these gates first.</div>
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a canalised part of the Doubs.</div>
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The chapel at Ranchot now decommissioned and used as an exhibition hall.<br />
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The most beautiful hand made patchwork quilts were in evidence when we were there.</div>
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As usual the local kids came to visit us for their lollipops...<br />
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And a lovely singsong was had by all despite the language barrier!!<br />
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Two views of our moorings in Ranchot, the above one taken at Dusk as we headed off for Bastille Day fireworks...<br />
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These lads found a dip in the canal off the lock wall very refreshing on a very hot sticky sunny day!</div>
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This was the marching band on Bastille day, or "Fete Nationale" as it is now called. we marched behind them, the children carrying paper lanterns with candles inside them. All the while everyone was setting off crackers and bangers in the crowd...!!!</div>
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We walked about 6 kilometres altogether and had a celebration at both the villages's memorials to the Dead of the two World Wars. A bouquet was laid and the band played the Marseillaise, it was quite moving. By the time we arrived at the second village and climbed the hill for the fireworks we were knackered but they put on a fab display of very noisy fireworks!<br />
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Some of the views from the towpaths were amazing, with the river opening out with very pretty weir waterfalls. We spent five nights at Ranchot and then moved on to a wall by a weir, I didn't take any photos of the actual moorings but we could walk a couple of minutes to a lovely beach on the river where we have spent the last four nights.<br />
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Temperatures have been in the mid 30's so John cooled down by sitting on a chair in the river....!!<br />
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Mags and Ni arrived on Gesina and stayed a couple of nights so there was more putting right over a bottle or two and they had us to dinner for a BBQ. Poor Tashi (their dog) got so hot she regularly went for a paddle in the river!!</div>
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Yesterday we walked miles up the hillside to a village called 'Torpes' where we saw this lovely chateau.</div>
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This bit of unnavigable canal runs behind Louis Pasteur's birthplace, where we went to a fascinating museum.<br />
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Louis Pasteur's birthplace and Museum</div>
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There was a BMX cycle endurance race whilst we there where they cycled up and down the very steep passages from 6pm to midnight to see how long they could race for! <br />
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The stained glass windows were just amazing, and the church was one of the most beautiful I've seen in France so far!<br />
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Our friends (Nigel and Mags on Gesina) who we spent last winter with at Auxerre arrived and passed a lovely week with us with many an evening spent over a bottle of wine and also a spontaneous curry evening caused by inclement weather!! Nigel discovered the water so we moored alongside to get our tanks filled and then moved back to our moorings.<br />
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However the city life palled and so we moved on to pastures new on the 10th July....</div>
The Puddle Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14493830333024856692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2278826312490179272.post-72247168035676629832013-06-24T07:57:00.002-07:002013-06-24T07:57:27.493-07:00Blessing of the boats 15.06.13. -16.06.13. and beginning of the Canal Rhone au RhinEventually we left Dijon and continued down the Burgundy canal to St Jean de Losne, the boating capital of France... We needed to buy a new lifebelt as someone in Dijon thought it was OK to steal ours and John doesn't swim very well..... They also felt obliged to steal one of our trays of flowers from the top of the boat and John also lost two pairs of glasses there, all in all Dijon was an expensive place!<br />
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The weather was so very hot these three days it took us to get to St Jean de Losne. It had reached 38 degrees today but this ominous black cloud turned out to be a torrential hail and thunder storm which we moored in, I got literally soaked to the skin!!</div>
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This was the view through the fence where we moored, but John fortunately saw the Alsatians before they saw him.......!</div>
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We moored on the steps at St jean on the banks of the River Saone. This river had been closed to navigation in May as it has risen by 8 metres..!!</div>
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There were many stalls along the riverside but these two were very good, he didn't fall from his ball!</div>
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Along with another bargee we were the judges in the 'Dog Competition'</div>
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This dog won first prize and her elderly owner was absolutely delighted!</div>
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Sunday morning 'Mass' was held and the priest then boarded a boat and blessed each boat, ours was blessed twice!!</div>
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We were moored stern out to the river and all rafted together- it was a rather strange sensation!<br />
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The bows of the priest's boat, we chuckled at the name...!!</div>
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All afternoon, water jousting took place in the river. We had superb views as it all took place at the end of our boat. We were fascinated by their medieval posturing, it was all taken very seriously!!<br />
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This young lady was very good and often demolished the men!</div>
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The festival finished off with all the boats parading up and down the river in a huge circle. There are no pictures as I was too busy helping John to keep us alive to take photos!! It was manic and really dangerous, most of the French drivers were really drunk!! We were awarded two bottles of special wine with the labels printed with the date and the festival, and John and I were also given medals for judging the dogs!! We left St Jean de Losne on the 20th June and headed down the Soane and turned right into a lovely old canal the 'Rhone au Rhin Canal' we went past the most enormous factory spread over miles in which area we were not allowed to stop.</div>
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We spent a night at Abergemont-la-Ronce and then set off the next day for Dole. The locks are very slow but that day worse than usual, one german boat going up and down in the lock for 40 minutes without the doors opening......Eventually we moored at a lovely pontoon at Choisey where we still are. There are no electricity or water but the view is lovely and we have good neighbours! We cycled in to Dole (5 Km each way) for music weekend (Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd June) and saw some excellent bands. Music night happens on Mid Summers day in france where the government fund loads of different types of music to play in public on the streets of the towns. It can be very noisy but we have heard some gems here!</div>
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Beautiful gardens on the riverside near Dole.</div>
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Our favourite group at Music night.</div>
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