Tuesday 10th September
Nivernais Canal
St Ledger-des-Vignes to Cercy-la-Tour
14km 3 locks
We bought a gas cylinder for the BBQ from the
Carrefour and some extra provisions before setting off at 10.30am
The Nivernais Canal is very pretty, quite narrow
in places, especially at the bridges, and some of the bridges are quite low
too. We were only going around 1km per
10 mins and we even struggled to overtake a couple of walkers!! They were walking quite briskly. We did
overtake them in the end but as we arrived at Cercy-la-tour we had to go under
low bridge and through a narrow section, which was a barrage lock, and by then
the walkers had caught us up.
Cercy is a great mooring, with lovely new pontoon,
with free water and electric, although the electric keeps tripping off with the
washing machine. It a pretty town, not
much here, but there is a boulangerie for tomorrow so that’s good. (There is a butchers
too.)
In the evening just as we were going to bed an owl
stared hooting, really close by in the trees, so we went outside to see if we
could spot it with our torch. It was not
scared off by the light and just kept on hooting, its a really lovely
sound. We couldn’t really see it except when it flew from one tree to another. Lots of stars were out and I saw a shooting
star.
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| Cercy-la-Tour lock |
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| more subtle colours |
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| A bit brighter |
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| last one I promise! |
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| We can drop our back awning, which is very useful with these low bridges See the red dot, this is to show you the centre of the bridge as there is a footpath one side |
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| We took ages to overtake these walkers |
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| Cercy |
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| Cercy |
Cercy-la-Tour to Anizy Lock
15km 7 locks
We woke up to rain, so we delayed our leaving until 10.30am when it had just about stopped. The lock at Cercy is very pretty, the bollards, lock gates, lock cottage doors and window shutters are painted a matching lime green, and there were lots of flowers. The lady lock keeper is also very friendly, and very careful with the sluices. We have a lovely trip, but it was really cold today, only 13 degrees in the wheelhouse, last week it was 40 degrees in the wheelhouse. We had to put the central heating on we were so cold.
We moored up in a really lovely quiet spot just after Anizy Lock in a very wide basin. There was one other boat there but no one was onboard.
Thursday 12th September
Anizy Lock to Chatillon-en-Bazois
20km 8 locks
We were going to do a really short trip, as we had read that there was a very nice creperie 7km away at Lock Fleury but we asked a lock keeper about it and he said that it was closed so we decided to go all the way to Chatillon-en-Bavois which was 20kkm away, we arrived at 4pm. It is a very slow twisty canal, with lots of low narrow bridges and 8 locks. All the locks were ready for us, and we tended to get one chap looking after two or three, most of them are very friendly.
We have a lovely mooring at Chatillon, between the 2 locks in the town. We are going to stay here two nights and if the weather is good tomorrow then we are going out on our bikes. Update....weather wasn't that good so we we took it easy today! Booked 9am slot with lock for tomorrow morning.
The canal is very quiet, we didn’t see any other boats except one that was moored at Cercy and they are now here at Chatillon.
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| Our lovely mooring at Anizy |
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| Twists and turns but actually not that bad, some of this part of the canal is quite wide |
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| Not so easy with this bridge/lock being just after a corner, they like to keep you on your toes |
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| Our mooring at Chatillon en Bazois |
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| The lock into Chatillon I've booked our 9am slot with the nice young lady lock keeper |
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| The lock we will use to leave Chatillon tomorrow Nice Chateau in background, its only open July and August |
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