Choisey
to Abergement La Ronce
8.5km
4 locks 1 hour 50 mins
We
set off at 8.30am and we were moored up by 10.20am. We had a quick look around Abergement, its just
a very small village, with very smart playground and sporting facilities just
near the mooring. We found a boulangerie
for the all important baguette! The
mooring is just after a lock, and the canal is quite narrow, which seemed to
create quite a flow of water backwards and forwards, so there was quite a bit
of creaking on our ropes.
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| A good mooring to stop at to give you a launch pad onto the river Saone It took us about 1 hour 20 mins from here to get onto the river |
Friday
10th July
Abergement
la Ronce to Auxonne
21km
4 locks 3 hours 50 mins
We
set off at 8.30am and had a very easy trip back to Auxonne where we were leaving
Rangali while we popped back to UK for a few weeks.
We
arrived back to Auxonne on 31st July and we had a very busy few days
doing cleaning and maintenance jobs and creating sun shades for the boat to
keep us cooler in the hot weather we’d been experiencing. We did quite a bit of shopping at home to
help us keep cooler onboard Rangali. We
did think we’d return to rain and cold weather now we’d bought all this stuff
but luckily its still been great weather, except for one rainy day.
We
met up with Sally and Charles on Bluegum and their daughter for dinner on the
Friday night and had a great time yet again.
We will be sorry to see them disappear off down south.
On
a very wet Tuesday we drove over to Choisey to visit the Grand Frais
supermarket and bought loads of fresh fish, fresh fruit and vegetables. We popped down to the mooring at Choisey just
to be nosey, to see if anyone we knew was moored up there, there wasn’t but we
did manage to see a fisherman with his young son looking at their catch, a huge
catfish about a metre long, they’d only caught it with a small fishing rod….the
sort of fishing rod Kev had been fishing with in the same spot when we’d been
moored up at Choisey. I think if Kev had
caught a fish that big I’d have run a mile…it looked huge. I do hope they were going to eat it as it was obviously very dead lying on the side of the canal, very sad to see.
Wednesday
5th August
36km
4 hours 2 locks
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| Leaving Auxonne, a great port to stay at |
After
a foggy start to the morning, we Auxonne left at 10.30am. The day ended up being very hot again, with
clear blue skies. The river was quite
busy with boats, we are definitely in the middle of the holiday season. We stopped off for an hour at the campsite
pontoon at St Jean for lunch. The
pontoon was empty when we arrived but soon filled up. It’s a very nice mooring, with what looks
like a nice little restaurant. We’d got
lots of fresh food onboard from our recent Grand Frais shopping trip, so we
wont be eating out for a while!
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| A very nice pontoon mooring at the campsite at St Jean |
As
we went past St Jean de Losne we saw Bluegum moored up but no one onboard. There would have been space for us on the
quay but we’d booked a mooring at Seurre so we carried on.
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| Bluegum at St Jean, surprisingly there would have been space for us |
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| Approaching the big commercial lock at Seurre, the first one we've done this year All nice and easy, bollards in the wall, we just used one middle rope as we gently dropped down |
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| Exiting the lock to arrive at Seurre |
We arrived at Seurre around 3.30pm. We phoned the captainaire, as the mooring we
thought we’d be on (a long pontoon on the river) was full, he directed us into
the port du plaisance to moor up on the hammerhead end of a pontoon. It’s a very nice quiet spot, off the
river. We are staying here for two
nights.
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| A very nice mooring, perched on the end of a pontoon mooring with water and electric 23.5 euros a night although they forgot to switch on the electric point for us last night so we used our electric splitter on an electric point being used by a boat moored up near us, so we could use the air conditioning in our bedroom last night |
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| Shade Sail by Kookaburra 3mx2m bought on Amazon when we were at home Idea pinched from Ettie and Tesserae! The shade sail lets air through it but stops 90% of UV rays We were lucky enough to find white straps in the bricolage in Auxonne |
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| My sun shades I ran up on the sewing machine using a Kookaburra shades sail (3m x 3m) I'd bought on offer on Amazon. We went to see Wilson Covers who made our back awning when were in UK and they made us some metal tubing for the shade sail on the dogbox, and gave us some spare zip and sliders so my shade sails fit perfectly into the awning, much smarter and cooler than the beach towels we were using to block the sun. |
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