tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61830978524731571952024-02-19T04:47:27.524-08:00Rangali AdventuresDebbie and Kevin's French adventures
onboard Rangali, a 60ft 'Piper' Dutch BargeRangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-56344098283065865802018-08-31T06:47:00.000-07:002019-07-13T08:22:34.863-07:00The river Seine to Paris/Marne/Canal Lateral a la Marne/Champagne Bourgogne Canal/Saone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sunday 7th July</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moret-sur-Loing PK48 to Melun PK110</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">21.5km/2 locks/3.45hrs</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We departed Moret-sur-Loing at 7.45am and joined the river Seine some 10 minutes later. We don't have AIS fitted, so I was positioned at the bow acting as look out and straight away there was a large commercial coming upstream across our intended path to join the river Seine, so we held off until he had passed before we turned downstream.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our first large commercial</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Or first lock on the Seine, we shared it with a large, empty commercial.<br />
Quite daunting as we watched it slowly come into the lock to join us. <br />
Our ropes really strained as it went along by us.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Captain Kev, happy to be back on a river</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We saw lots of commercial traffic, but the river is so big they are not a problem</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exiting our second lock with a large commercial waiting to enter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We got out of his way as quickly as we could.</td></tr>
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We moored up at Melun PK110 at 11.30am. We didn't manage to moor here the last time we came through 5 years ago as we didn't get through the lock in time before it shut. Its a good mooring, but there is a lot of wash from the commercials going through.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three commercials coming through Melun when we were moored up.<br />
We enjoyed watching the commercials go through all day</td></tr>
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We didn't go to bed until after midnight as we had some youths sitting on a bench near to the boat and we felt a bit uncomfortable going to bed while they were still there, but by midnight we were getting tired so we thought, oh well we will just have to go to bed, as soon as we switched our saloon lights off, they went, maybe they were waiting for us to go to bed before they left, so we should have gone to bed sooner!!!<br />
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Monday 8th July<br />
Melun PK110 to Lock Évry PK138<br />
28km/2 locks/4 hours 10 mins<br />
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The mooring at lock Évry was great, we moored before the lock and as far upstream as we could as we'd read that commercials turn up quite late and sure enough three commercials arrived around 8pm and they left very early the next morning.<br />
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Tuesday 10th July<br />
Lock Évry PK138 to Paris Port du Arsenal PK168<br />
30km/4 locks/4 hours 45 mins<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We shared two locks with three smallish commercials</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coming up to the junction with the river Marne</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Its great seeing the road signs for Paris</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entrance to the Port du Arsenal coming into view</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A better view of the entrance to the Port du Arsenal and Canal Saint-Martin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lock taking us into the Port du Arsenal<br />
Floating bollards but we advise using the ones on the opposite side as this <br />
side the floating bollards don't have a cap so the ropes slip off!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We enjoyed our stay at Port du Arsenal despite the city noise and pollution</td></tr>
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We had a very enjoyable two weeks in Paris, we walked miles and miles, used the Batobus once which was great, visited cathedrals, museums, exhibitions, had friends visit and the weather was amazing, a bit too hot, but better than rain. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bassilica Sacré Coeur</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the Basillica Sacré Coeur</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walk back down to Monmatre</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from our mooring of Bastille monumnet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We visited Sainte-Chapelle, well worth going to see to enjoy <br />
the amazing stain glass windows that have recently been restored, absolutely stunning<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No more room for anymore padlocks! Full of love, hope and promise!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We also visited an exhibition on the artwork by Gustav Klimt</td></tr>
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We went to a digital exhibition at <a href="https://www.atelier-lumieres.com/">Atelier des Lumière</a> featuring work by Gustav Klimt, I think I enjoyed it more than Kev!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We took the Batobus along the Seine to Eiffel Tower </td></tr>
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We were in Paris for the football World Cup semi final and final. Paris erupted when France got through to the final and then when they won, well the celebrations lasted ALL night. We were pleased to be in a secure mooring at Port du Arsenal, the noise outside the port was tremendous, I don't know how the Parisians had the energy to make that much noise for so long!! We were jolly glad England wasn't in the final, we might have had to hide our flag!<br />
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The remainder of our 2018 trip will be written very succinctly as its taken me until April 2019 to write it!! also I'm writing the onboard and Ive left my note book at home so the hours indicated for our trips now is engine hours not true journey time as we tend to switchoff engine when we can, especially going down.<br />
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Tuesday 24th July<br />
Paris Port du Arsenal to Nogent PK171 3 locks 1 tunnel<br />
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We departed Port du Arsenal and made our way to Nogent on the river Marne. We got delayed at one lock where we had to wait for two hours for commercial traffic. Nogent wasn't a particularly great mooring under a bridge but we were pleased we had booked there seeing as we were delayed so long at lock St Maurice. Our mooring guide had the incorrect VHF number for lock St Maurice so we were not getting a reply, the correct number is VHF 19.<br />
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Wednesday 25th July<br />
Nogent to Lagny sur Marne<br />
22km 2 locks 3 hrs<br />
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Lagny is a great mooring, we stopped here our first year in France on our way to Paris. This year we stayed here for two nights. Free mooring and you pay at tourist office nearby for electric.<br />
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Friday 27th July<br />
Lagny PK152 to Meaux PK 134<br />
18km 1 tunnel, 3 locks 3 hours<br />
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Meaux is a great mooring, lots of pontoons, but it does get busy. They'd had floods at some point and one of the pontoons the electric points did not work. There was no charge for mooring there We stayed here 4 nights and visited the World War 1 museum which was excellent and well worth a visit. <a href="https://www.museedelagrandeguerre.eu/">https://www.museedelagrandeguerre.eu/</a><br />
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Wednesday 1st August<br />
Meaux PK134 to St Jean Les Deux Jumeaux PK 100<br />
34km 2 locks 4.5 hrs<br />
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A very nice mooring on a floating pontoon with electric and water<br />
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Thursday 2nd August<br />
St Jean PK 100 to Chateau Thierry PK51<br />
49km, 4 locks 6.6hrs<br />
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It was a long days cruise but very beautiful on the river. We stayed 2 nights at Chateau Thierry, a very nice place, with a great market.<br />
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Saturday 4th August<br />
Chateau Thiery PK 51 to Dormans PK26<br />
15km 2 locks 3.2 hrs<br />
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Dormans is a great mooring with electric and water, very popular, we saw quite a few boats coming and going. We had our friends Dave and Clare for dinner one evening, which was lovely, Barge Lyneve with Steve and Lynda had moored up and they came for drinks to meet Dave and Clare and we had Dean on Piper barge Angela Dawn moor alongside for one nigh so we had a nice sociable time there. All this time from Paris we are in a heat wave which was great but very exhausting.<br />
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Tuesday 7th August<br />
Dormans PK26 to Damary PK5<br />
21km 2 locks 3 hours<br />
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We were pleased to see a vacant pontoon at Damary as we wanted to stop here to go back to a Champagne house to buy some more of their Champagne. We only stayed one night as there was quite a bit of coming and going at night with youths jumping into the river off the nearby bridge in the dark and we felt a little unsafe.<br />
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Wednesday 8th August<br />
Damary PK 5 to Mareuil sur Ay PK59<br />
12km 4 locks 2.3 hrs<br />
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We left the river Marne and joined the Canal Lateral a La Marne. We were sorry to leave the river, it is a beautiful, meandering river, lined with vineyards and trees.<br />
Mareuil is a great mooring, lots of space and has a very nice feel about it, so we stayed 2 nights<br />
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Friday 10th August<br />
Mareuil PK59 to Chalons en Champagne PK32<br />
17km 5 locks 4.2 hrs<br />
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We had reserved a place at Chalons. There is plenty of space for cruisers but not so much for barges and even less if a hotel boat is in port. The town grew on us slowly over the 3 days we stayed there.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We visited the war graves in Chalons</td></tr>
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Monday 13th August<br />
Chalons PK32 to Pogny PK18<br />
12km 2 locks 2.4 hrsTuesday 14th August<br />
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Pogny PK18 to Couvrot PK5<br />
13km 5 locks 2.6hrs<br />
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We are pleased we moored here the night rather than going on further to Vitry le Francois as when we went past Vitry the following day it didn't look like a very nice port, very crowded with old barges and commercials, but this mooring was only worth staying one night.<br />
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Wednesday 15th August<br />
The start of the Champagne et Bourgogne Canal<br />
Couvrot PK 5 Orconte PK66<br />
7 locks 3.1hrs<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The locks on the Champagne Bourgogne Canal are filled to the brim</td></tr>
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The first part of the Champagne Bourgogne Canal didn't look too promising but once we'd got through the first lock it improved. We were given a controller for the locks and quite a few of the locks you didn't even have to pull the blue pole you just used the controller to work the locks.<br />
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We stayed two nights at Orconte, it was a nice mooring, and we met a very nice couple on barge Riccall , called Alex and Louise who had spent quite a few days moored at Orconte.<br />
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Friday 17th August<br />
Orconte PK66 to Chamouilley PK38.5<br />
21.5km 10 locks, 4.5 hrs<br />
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We stopped at St Dizier but there was no shade, still very hot weather, so after we'd popped to te supermarket we carried on our journey to a much nicer moored at Chamouilley. We liked it so much there we stayed 3 nights.<br />
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Monday 20th August<br />
Chamouilley PK 38.5 to Jonville PK 62<br />
23.5km 11 locks 3.7hrs<br />
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Another nice mooring at Jonville, we stayed here 2 nights. It is a private mooring belonging to the hotel and there is a restaurant there where we had dinner one night, very nice.<br />
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Wednesday 22nd August<br />
Joinville PK 62 to Rouvroy sur Marne PK72<br />
10km 4 locks 2 hrs<br />
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This was a nice quiet mooring.<br />
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Thursday 23rd August<br />
Rouvroy PK 72 to Froncles PK85<br />
Froncles is a big mooring, lots of space, with a big camper van park right next to the mooring, it was busy but still a nice mooring. Supermarket within walking distance.<br />
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Friday 24th August<br />
Froncles PK 85 to Chaumont PK 110<br />
25km 11 locks 4.7hrs<br />
The scenery is lovely on this section of canal. pine trees give the canal a different feeling.<br />
The mooring at Chaumont wasn't that pretty, strange concrete bollards but we stayed for two nights. The was electric and water.<br />
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Sunday 26th August<br />
Chaumont PK110 to Foulain PK 124<br />
14km 8 locks 2 hrs<br />
The mooring at Foulain was lovely and quiet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I loved the different feel the pine trees gave the canal in this section</td></tr>
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Monday 27th August<br />
Foulain PK124 to Rolampont PK138<br />
14km 7 locks 2.8hrs<br />
A nice mooring, the village has a boulangerie.<br />
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Tuesday 28th August<br />
Rolampont PK 138 to Langres 149<br />
11km 7 locks 2 hours<br />
The port at Langres was quite busy but we got a space to moor and we stayed here for 3 nights. We caught the bus to the town centre and enjoyed looking around the town and seeing the fantastic views from the city walls. It was great to meet up with Lesley and Stewart off Calliope. They were on their way to Sillery for the winter.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great views from the city walls</td></tr>
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Friday 1st September<br />
Langres PK149 to Villegusien-le-Lac PK 167<br />
1 5km tunnel, 10 locks (all down now to the River Saōne)<br />
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We early departed from Langres and had problems with the first lock of the day and typically there was no where to tie up, we managed to ring VNF and after about 30 mins a lock keeper arrived to sort out the lock. The tunnel was fine, but long. We then had some big locks to go down, I was pleased we were going down rather than up, so it was all very easy.<br />
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The mooring at Villegusien wasn't that pretty but was ok, and we had a nice walk to and around some of the nearby lake and we had lunch at the campsite cafe on the Saturday.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pompieres arrived to do a training session in the derelict buildings</td></tr>
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Sunday 3rd September<br />
Villiguien PK167 to PK186<br />
19km 16 locks 3 hours<br />
As nice rural mooring just downstream of Lock 24, we liked it here as it so rural so we stayed here two nights.<br />
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PK 186 to St Seine PK196<br />
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This was another nice quiet mooring just enough space for us. We cycled into town to the supermarket and boulangerie, a pretty town so worth the effort.<br />
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Thursday 7th September<br />
PK196 to PK212<br />
16 km 9locks 2.8 hours<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A keen fisherman turned up and stayed the night!</td></tr>
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The bollard was a bit wonky at this mooring but was solid enough.<br />
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Friday 8th September<br />
PK212 to Maxilly PK222<br />
10km, 3 locks 1.6hrs<br />
Maxilly is the last mooring before leaving the canal. It's a nice mooring, jetons bought at boulangerie for electric. It was quite busy with commercials turning up late after the lock had closed for the evening.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This kingfisher kept flying in front of us </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We left Beaulieu at 8.40am and had a very easy trip to the Briare Aquaduct. We decided not to stay at Briare and carry onto Ouzouer-sur-Trézée PK7.8. We encountered our first 'up' locks this year. Amazing to think we've been going down since Roanne. We only have 8 up locks on the canal de Briare and then its all downhill to Paris which makes things very easy. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Briare Aqueduct</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lovely view of Briare from the Aqueduct</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our first UP lock of the season</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very nice 'free' mooring at Ouzouer-sur-Trézée<br />
Free electric and water and a boulangerie in the town</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuesday 19th June</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">21km/18 locks/7hrs 15 mins inc 1 hour for lunch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ouzouer-sur-Trézée PK 7.8 to Châtillon-Coligny PK29</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We left at 9.00am and had a long day to arrive at Châtillon-Coligny at 4pm. We had thought we'd moor at Danmarie-sur-Loing PK23 as we'd moored there 5 years ago and liked it but the lock keeper who took us down the chain of locks to Rogny-les-Sept-Écluses said there was a big boat moored there. When we'd actually got there there was space for us, no sign of a large boat but the lock keepers were waiting for us with a cruiser already in the next lock so we thought we should carry on. We were pleased as we really liked the mooring at Châtillon-Coligny, so much so we stayed 5 days. We had ordered a new socket for our shore-power cable as it was broken and we were able to get it delivered to the port office which was handy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was work being done on upgrading the cycleway, it was just about finished so you will be able to cycle all the way from Briare to Montargis. It's great for my running which I've been able to keep up due to the fantastic cycleways along the canals and rivers. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very nice mooring at Châtillon-Coligny<br />
Free mooring with electric and water</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chatillon-Coligny had some nice old parts of the town to wander around</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Delivery of our spare plug for our shore power cable</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Monday 24th June</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Châtillon-Coligny PK29 to Montbouy PK35</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6km/2 locks/1.5hrs</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A short trip to Montbouy. The mooring is free but you need to buy jetons for electric and water which are available to purchase from the grocers or boulangerie in the village.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Montbouy</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuesday 26th June</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Montbouy PK35 to Montargis PK52</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">17km/6 locks/3 45 mins hours</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We left Montbouy at 8.55am and had a beautiful trip to Montargis arriving at 12.40pm. We had our fingers crossed we could moor at the town moorings, but luckily there was plenty of space for us, so we were very pleased.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Montargis is a nice town to visit, and we also enjoyed walking near the river where there was a lovely park to walk around.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A beautiful canal</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Montargis is called Little Venice due to the small canals that go through the town.<br />
All very pretty with the flowers in the ornamental boats.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We moored at the port which was nice <br />
but we had to be gone by Friday morning as a hotel boat was arriving</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lovely flowers everywhere at Montargis</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friday 29th June</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Montargis PK52 to Nargis PK10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">15km/9 locks/4 hours</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This commercial arrived at 8.30am and he waited until 9am for the lock to open pipping us to the post</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were happy to leave Montargis as there was work going on <br />
by the side of the canal, a generator and noisy piling all day.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We left Montargis at 9.30am. We liked it at Montargis but there was a lot of noise from work going on to do with piling by the side of the canal and the road nearby was only a dusty track so our boat got covered in a grey dust so we were happy to leave. We had booked the lock for 9am but a large, empty commercial barge came through at 8.30am and waited infront of the lock to open at 9am, so we had to wait until that had gone through. Luckily he only went down 2 locks to the port du commerce so we weren't held up by him. We are now on the Canal du Loing and we have been given a control box to use for the locks, so no need for eclusiers. When we came this way 5 years ago (our first year in France) we were rushing through as they were closing the canal to automate the locks. It's great having the control box as it means we can leave when we decide on the day rather than informing the lock keepers of when we are departing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nargis was quite a nice mooring, no facilities but quiet. But the boulangerie in the village had closed down which was a shame. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sunday 1st July</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nargis PK10.4 to Madeleine-sur-Loing PK21</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10.5km/3 locks/2 hours</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We thought we might stop at Souppes-sur-Loing, but there wasn't any space for us, but we didn't like to look of the mooring anyway, a very tatty, commercial looking mooring. It's popular because of the free electric but not a big enough incentive for us to stop there. We thought we'd try a mooring we've got information on in our DBA guides at PK21. Just as we arrived at our planned mooring we encountered a large. empty commercial. All was fine, but if we'd been 5 minutes earlier we would nave been happily moored up!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just our luck we came across this commercial in a narrow section.<br />
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but his wife indicated for us to cross back to the right of the canal, so at least we knew he'd seen us!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A nice mooring in front of lock 9 at PK21</td></tr>
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Monday 2nd July<br />
PK21 to Nemours PK29<br />
8km/3locks/1 hr 20mins<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We moored at Nemours before the official port du plaisance PK29<br />
no facilities but nice and quiet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A quiet mooring at Nemours</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nemours is an attractive town. The town moorings are nice if there is space and has electric and water.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wednesday 4th July</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nemours PK29 to Moret-sur-Loing PK48</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had a great trip to Moret-sur-Loing. We'd rung up and booked a mooring so we knew there was a space for us which makes for a relaxing cruise. So we are at the end of the Loing Canal, next step is the Seine which will be completely different to the type of cruising we've done so far this year. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moret-sur-Loing is a very nice town, worth staying a few days</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moret is very attractive with its bridges and weirs.<br />
As it was hot weather, youngsters were swimming/paddling in the river.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our mooring at Moret</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A different view of our mooring, we felt very secure here.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While we were at Moret we caught a bus to Fountainbleu. We thoroughly enjoyed looking around the beautiful chateau and the town is well worth visiting too, very vibrant and busy with lots of restaurants to choose from.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of the mooring at Moret, the non floating pontoons are set at an angle, facing up-stream. <br />
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Rangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-48423886878806461382018-08-09T08:04:00.000-07:002018-08-30T09:14:27.640-07:002018 - Roanne Canal and Canal Lateral a Loire<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday 9th August 2018</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We set off from Roanne on Wednesday 30th May, travelling the Canal de Roanne à Digoin, Canal Lateral à Loire, Canal de Briare, Canal du Loing, river Seine, Port du Arsenal, river Marne.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we've written about the Roanne Canal and Lateral à Loire Canal quite a few times now I'll make that short and sweet and give more details about the other waterways as its been 5 years since we've passed this way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Canal de Roanne à Digion Canal </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Departing Roanne to a chorus of beeping horns saying<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wednesday 30th May</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Roanne to Briennon PK15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2.25hrs 15km 3 locks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday 31st May</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Briennon PK15 to Bourg PK35.6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3.5hrs 20km 3 locks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PK35.6 to Coulanges PK 15 on Canal Lateral à Loire</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7.5hrs 28km 5 locks We were delayed at first lock Le Bourg, we'd booked it for 9am but another boat moored with us must have booked it for 9.30am and we had to wait in the lock for them. Why the VNF didn't tell us, we would have had a more leisurely start to the day. We were also delayed for 40 mins at lock 2 on Lateral canal. Only one lock keeper looking after two locks. We were pretty tired by the time we moored up at 4.30pm. Coulanges has electric and water, you pay with debit card to get jetton. It didn't work when we were there and the chap moored there with us complained to whoever? and an electrician came and turned the electric on and we didn't have to pay. Result!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday 2nd June</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Coulanges PK15 to Beaulon PK37.6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6.45hrs inc lunch 17.5km 6 locks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We caught up with our good friends Sally and Charles on Bluegum at lock 7 due to lunch stop by the eclusiers. They'd left Roanne a few days before us. We had a lovely sociable time with them at Beaulon. A boules match, ladies versus men, ladies won!! plus a shared BBQ with meat bought from the very nice butchers in the village. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Monday 4th June</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beaulon PK 37.6 to Ganay-sur-Engiéve PK40.5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Probably our shortest trip this year!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A nice mooring but as always, we seem to find noisy workmen, this time they were working across from our mooring cutting down trees from an overgrown garden and putting the branches through a shredder....ALL day! Luckily we were off cycling for some of the day.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We used this mooring to cycle to Bourbon-Lacey. Big mistake, we decided to visit on a Monday, everything just about closed, but not much to see even if it was open!! Some nice old parts to the town but we've seen more impressive places. Luckily supermarket was open so we popped in on our cycle back to the boat. The road was quite busy so not a pleasant ride.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuesday 5th June</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ganay-sur-Engiéve PK40.5 to Vanneaux (Gannay-sur-Loire) PK52</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bit rainy during our trip to Gannay, I arrived wearing wet weather gear, Bluegum were at Gannay and Sally was wearing shorts and vest top; she and I looked like we were </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">definitely dressed for different weather.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gannay is a very good mooring, with electric and water (free) <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were intending to eat lunch at the restaurant by the mooring but they closed just before lunch!! So Sally, Charles, Kev and I walked into Gannay-Sur-Loire and had a very nice lunch at a restaurant come epicerie. There was a set menu, we did all try to have the goats cheese starter but when Kev and Charles tried to order it after Sally and I had chosen that as our starter, they were told "non!" So we presumed all the goats cheese was all gone, but then another group came in and they were allowed to order the goats cheese! Very confusing. So Kev and Charles had cured meats instead. Wish we spoke better french, although I don't think it would have helped!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday 7th June</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gannay sur Loire PK 52.5 to Decize PK68.5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2 hrs 50mins 16.5km 4 locks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A nice easy trip to Decize and we were pleased to find space on the canal outside the entrance to the Decize marina. We used the mooring spot to do a few trips to the nearby supermarket. We had a very pleasant evening with a couple we had met at Auxonne marina last year. They were moored up near us, busy doing painting jobs until it got too hot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friday 8th </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">June </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Decize PK68.5 to Chevenon PK93</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4 hrs 14.5km 5 locks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We like this mooring as it is quiet and pretty rural. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday 9th June</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chevron PK93 to Le Guetin PK111</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">18km double lock 3 hrs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We set off early at 7.55am, there are no locks for 13km and then its the big double lock at Le Guetin. There is a big mooring there so very easy to find a spot to moor up. We enjoyed a very nice pizza at the local bistro. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can just about see Rangali moored up at the far end.<br />
A nice place to visit is Apremont-sur-Allier, with a great garden to walk around. An easy cycle ride away.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sunday 10th June</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Le Guetin PK111 to Beffes PK129</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4.5hrs (inc 45mins lunch) 18km 4 locks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beffes is a great mooring, unfortunately we had to moor up on one of the finger pontoons (which is far too short for us) while a hire boat moored on the quayside, which is a perfect spot for our size boat, to have their long lunch. So we couldn't really relax until they left. We stayed here a couple of nights as its such nice mooring and we had a very nice lunch at the restaurant by the lock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuesday 12th June</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beffes PK129 to Thauvenay PK155.5 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We decided to moor just above the lock 33 so that we could walk to the nearby cave called Eric Louis. We bought enough for them to deliver the wine to the boat later that evening. They do a very nice Sancerre, White and Rosé, Quincy (white), and Cremant du Loire. It was lovely quiet mooring. We had a set lunch at the hotel Le Floroine at Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre, always good value and all the locals go there. NO choice in the menu but there is a buffet to start.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thauveny a very peaceful mooring above lock 33</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday 14th June</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thauvenay PK156.5 to Léré PK 175</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4 hrs 40 mins 19km 4 locks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were happy to find space at Léré. We moored up temporarily and moved neared the electric and water when a boat moved off after lunch. We had a really delicious dinner at the restaurant in the village. We've done well for eating out recently! Hotel barges often moor here, there is a schedule written up at the port. Boulangerie in the village.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a music night that we went along to for a short time, very busy with the locals. there was a heavy metal band playing when we were there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sunday 17th June</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Léré PK175 to Beaulieu-sur-Loire PK184</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1hr 45 mins 9km 2 locks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is another mooring that has hotel barges but there is plenty of room for other boats. There are a couple of boulangeries in the town. They were working on resurfacing the pavements and roads so it was a little bit chaotic there but will be nice once its finished. I went for lovely run in the surrounding countryside, so recommend it for a nice cycle ride though the village along D951 and circling towards the Loire via l'Etang.</span><br />
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mooring we planned to stop at was available, and we’ve met some great people
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moving if the weather was forecast to rain or thunderstorm, staying for a few
days if we liked the place, or moved on if not. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have had to call the police a couple of
times, which was unfortunate but dealing with the Gendarmes was a very positive
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We stayed two
nights at Fouchécourt, which was very enjoyable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were there for Bastille Day (Kevs' birthday) and Roger the
chef and captainaire put on a mini firework display which was fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Saturday 15<sup>th</sup>
July<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Fouchécourt PK381
to Port sur Saone PK365<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Port sur Soane</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Monday 17<sup>th</sup>
July<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Port sur Saone
PK365 To Scey-Sur-Saone PK356<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">9km/2 locks/1.5hr<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Scey-sur-Saone
was a new mooring for us and it is a beautiful spot just by a weir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a popular mooring for hire boats but
they tended to stop for lunch and then move on so it was quite quiet during the
evenings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the locks on the Saöne there are mirrors which made <br />
for some interesting pictures of Rangali</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scey-sur-Saöne</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Idyllic setting at Scey-sur-Saöne</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Thursday 20<sup>th</sup> Juy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Scey-sur-Saone PK356 to Soing PK333<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">23km/3 locks/1 tunnel/2 hrs 40 mins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">We were pleased to be able to moor back at this nice quiet mooring.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">We were joined in the evening by a yacht, which moored alongside us for the night.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our neighbours for the night</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Friday 21</span><sup style="font-family: Arial;">st</sup><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">
July</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Soing PK333 to
Savoyeaux PK314<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">19km/4 locks/1
tunnel/2 hrs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the canalised section (deviations) on the River Saöne</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Even though we
weren’t keen on the Savoyeaux mooring when we moored there earlier this year,
we decided to stop there again as we knew we could just squeeze onto the end
pontoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was fun watching the hire
boats returning at the end of their holiday and try and moor up in the tight
spots allocated to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hire boats
from this place all looked like private boats that were hired out, some of them
looked very nice boats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Saturday 22<sup>nd</sup>
Juy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Savoyeaux PK314
to Gray PK283<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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locks/3 hours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We set off at
8.50am and had to hang around for a short time for the tunnel to open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily we were first in the queue so it made
our trip very easy and we were pleased to find a space for us on the quay at
Gray where we stayed for one week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
even got electric at Gray which was great (its free there)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Saturday 29<sup>th</sup>
July<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Gray PK283 to
Mantoche PK276<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">7km/0 locks/40
mins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We were lucky
when we got to Mantoche as a large cruiser was just leaving so we were able to
perch on the end of the quay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We really like
the mooring at Mantoche but it was rather spoilt this time by us noticing a
young man who was obviously selling drugs, very near to our mooring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over a couple of days we slowly put two and
two together as we noticed him hanging around with his phone and occasionally a
young person would meet up with him for a short time, and then disappear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the Monday evening this young guy joined a
chap who was fishing extremely close to the stern of our boat and it looked
like they were smoking drugs at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We were sat on our back deck and we tried to ignore them but when the
guy who was fishing lobbed his line right over our back awning, we could
hear all the bait falling onto our awning roof. Kev lost it and told them that
he was going to call the police as they were smoking drugs!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They scarpered pretty quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We've never seen a fisherman get his gear together so quickly! </span>Kev did call the police and they turned up
within 10 minutes, which is pretty amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We explained what we had seen happening and they drove off to see if
they could find the two young men in the village.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decided to move off the next day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A nice quiet spot if there are no druggies around!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Tuesday 1<sup>st</sup>
August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Mantoche PK276 to
Auxonne PK234.5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We had a long
cruise today to Auxonne. We moored back in the Auxonne H2O marina.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Friday 4<sup>th</sup>
August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Auxonne PK234 to
St Jean de Losne PK215<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">When we got to
SJdL there was no space on the quay so we phoned H2O and they had space for us
on their visitor mooring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was nice to
moor somewhere different at SJdL, it was very peaceful moored in the marina.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A beautiful sunset at our mooring at H2O</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Monday 7<sup>th</sup>
August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">St Jean de Losne
PK215 to Fragnes on Canal du Centre PK8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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good trip down the Saone to Chalons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was a lovely sunny day and we managed to arrive at Fragnes by 2.30pm after
leaving SJdL at 8.30am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The captainaire
at Fragnes is off on Monday and Tuesday so she said she couldn't reserve a mooring
for us but luckily there was plenty of space when we arrived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even better, the restaurant was open so we
were able to have a meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
thought they’d be closed for their annual holiday but luckily we’d just got there a few
days before they closed for two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the big boys on the river Saöne</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Wednesday 9<sup>th</sup>
August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Fragnes PK8 to
Santenay PK25.3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">17.3km/11 locks/5
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very pretty cottage on the canal du Centre </td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";"><br />It was a long
cruise today with some delays on locks with either boat traffic coming the
other way or malfunctioning locks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
were pleased to find space for us at our favorite mooring at Santenay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decided to stop a few days here; it was
quite busy with hotel barges stopping off for a few hours to drop off their
guests for tours to Santenay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had
another enjoyable dinner out at the restaurant Le Terroir in the town.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Saturday 12<sup>th</sup>
August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Santenay PK24.8
to St Ledger sur Dheune PK 32.3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">7.5km/4 locks/1
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Santenay was busy with hotel barges, its a very narrow section.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Monday 13<sup>th</sup>
August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">St Ledger to St
Julien PK45<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">13 km/11 locks/
3hours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mooring at St Ledger, just out of the town</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Since we’ve
entered the Canal du Centre its all been up hill locks, some of them are quite
deep 5m, with floating bollards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
are fun to do when sharing with another boat!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Tuesday 15<sup>th</sup>
August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">St Julien PK45 to
Blanzy PK61.5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">16.5km/7 locks/4
hrs 50 mins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leaving St ledger</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Another longish
day cruise, we were pleased to find a space just big enough for us at
Blanzy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful evening at Blanzy, looks ready for a storm though!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Thursday 17<sup>th</sup>
August <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Blanzy PK61.5 to
Genélard PK82<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">19.5km/9
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Saturday 19<sup>th</sup>
August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Genélard PK82 to
Paray-le-Monial PK102<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">20km/7 locks/4 hours including our delay at lock 17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We had pre booked our first lock of the day lock 17, but when we arrived at 9am it didn’t prepare for us.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">We had to hang around for ages before a very nice lock keeper drove from Montceaux les Mines to sort it out for us.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">While we were waiting a gentleman came from his garden asking if I’d like some vegetables and salad for 4 euros. It was pot luck what I got, I was given green beans, different types of tomatoes, courgettes, lettuce, onions and some potatoes!</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">There were so many tomatoes I made a tomato soup and froze it.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paray Le Monial</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We had a lovely
time in Paray, it was pretty busy on Saturday and Sunday as there was a big
religious event going on. We did experience two disturbances over the week though, which wasn't so good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the Sunday morning at 5am I was
woken up by a sound of someone on our roof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We quickly got up and found a young couple standing on our roof by the
wheelhouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve no idea why they
decided it was a good idea to board our boat and I think they got a big fright
when they had me shouting at them to get off!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Later on in the
week we also got disturbed just after we had gone to bed at midnight by youths
boarding our boat to steal our bikes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are fold up bikes and they were in a locked position but not locked
to the boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We f</span>oolishly thought that, as
we were in a religious town, there wouldn’t be any crime!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">They managed to
get one of our bikes and run off with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They couldn’t ride it as it was locked in the fold up position and we
had also taken off the saddles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kev rang
the police and explained what had happened, describing the youths and the
bike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They said they would send someone
round to see us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>45/60 minutes went by
with no sign of the police.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then got
a phone call to say they had apprehended the youths and had got our bike back!!
They said they would return the bike to us the next day, so we went to
bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’d just got back into bed when we
heard a vehicle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we got back up to
find it was the police with our bike and three other bikes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They wanted to know if they were ours
too!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They didn’t manage to arrest the
youths, as they weren’t found actually with the bikes, just standing away from
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then next morning we were phoned
at 8am to ask us to go to the police station to file a report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we got there after cycling half an hour
in the rain, the police on duty looked confused as to why we were there and to
start off with were reluctant to take a statement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they did in the end, but it will be a
waste of time, as we couldn’t really describe the youths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were very impressed with the police though
and so happy to get our bike back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Friday 25<sup>th</sup>
August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Paray PK 102 to
Digoin/Chavanne PK5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We really regret
stopping at Chavanne (the woodpile mooring) this time, as we didn’t realise that
the trees were dropping sap all over the boat. After rain and then a hot sunny
day, the sap baked onto the roof of the boat and made a right mess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looked like the roof was covered with
rust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took me days to scrub the roof
clean, losing some of the white paint in the process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We thought the sap from the trees would just wipe off but NO! Extremely hard to remove!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Over the past few
days we had got to know a lovely couple, Werner and Lisa off a very nice Linsen
cruiser and we enjoyed quite a few sociable evenings with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were sad to see them leave Chavanne on the
Thursday to carry on their journey to Decize for the winter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Le Croix rouge PK
49 to Briennon PK15<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We left Croix
Rouge at 7.45am, which is a very early start for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a great trip and we were moored at
Briennon by 1.45pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately the
electric point wasn’t working so we couldn’t use our air conditioning and it
was such a hot, and humid day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We had a slightly
longer trip as they were clearing weed from one section of the canal but we
were moored up at Roanne port our winter mooring by 12.30pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were held up at this lock while the weed muncher was fixed (it had broken down)<br />
and then was able to munch up the weed. <br />
We were happy to wait rather than plough through the soup of weed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quite a hard thing to manoeuvre </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a weed cutter we came across further up the canal</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our last lock of the season</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roanne Port our home for Rangali for the winter</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We’ve had a
fantastic cruise this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had some
very hot days, not much rain, which lead to some problems for some cruising on the
canals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We feel that we were very lucky
in the fact that we weren’t badly effected by the low water levels, we always
seemed to be able to moor where we had planned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That could have been because the canals and rivers were quieter this
year. This also meant less socializing than normal, but that was probably good news
for our livers!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We travelled 1259 km
with 408 locks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">We had a very
relaxing, recuperating week at Epinal.
We had mixed weather, which was fine with us as we need the rain. There are concerns with low water levels all
over the French canal system. We had
some huge thunderstorms, with big downpours and we noticed the water level rise
a little in the port, which is all good news.
Also the inclement weather discouraged the youths of Epinal to hang out
late at night in the park so we enjoyed a nice peaceful time there. It was also very quiet boat wise, due to the
low water levels and this short canal section had been temporarily closed up until very
recently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of space at Epinal port</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There was an American themed weekends at Epinal, good fun but very noisy </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The trucks loved blowing their horns</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">As we are now
returning back along the canal des Vosges I’ll summarize our trip back to
Corre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Monday 3<sup>rd</sup>
July<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Epinal to Bouzey
PK 92.8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">13.5 km/14
locks/2 hours 55 mins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luckily we only met one boat as we went up the flight of locks at Golbey<br />The flight of locks all work well except one but a VNF engineer was nearby so helped get the lock back into action</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice pontoon mooring at Bouzey</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A gentleman came and gave us a lettuce from his garden which was very kind</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was a bit hot to walk all the way around this reservoir, maybe next time! Its just by the Bouzey mooring</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Tuesday 4<sup>th</sup>
July<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Bouzey PK 92.8 to
Giranacourt PK 97.5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Pete our UK
heating engineer came to service our boiler at Girancourt. He does a trip to
France every year to service his clients who have come over to France with
their barges. We heard on the canal jungle
drums he was near Auxerre servicing a Piper barge boiler, we managed to get him
to fit us in at very short notice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Wednesday 5<sup>th</sup>
July<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Girancourt PL
97.5 to PK 103<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">This mooring was
a lovely peaceful mooring, but no TV, mobile or internet signal. First time we’ve been totally off grid! Weather is back to being very hot again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very peaceful mooring, very hot though!<br /></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Thursday 6<sup>th</sup>
July<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">PK 103 to
Thunimont PK 111.2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">We left second
after a cruiser that was also moored at PK103, which meant all the locks were
against us and one lock didn’t want to open its gates to let us in and we had
to wait almost an hour for the VNF to come and fix it. I had got off the boat
when we first had the problem, as it so often happens there was no mooring to
tie up to before the lock and it was a little shallow, so Kev brought the bow in so I could jump off the boat. I tried to rattle the
lock gates to get them to open to no avail so I then called the VNF via the
intercom at the lock, and I was told someone would come <i>tout de suite. </i>But we were
still waiting 45 mins later with Kev floating around. So Kev got
off the boat while I held it with a rope and he went and gave the sensor on the
lock gate a little nudge with his foot and suddenly the gates went into action
and opened for us. We wish he’d done it
sooner!! He obviously knew where to kick it, rather than me randomly trying to make it work! We scraped the bottom a little
as we moved away from the side of the canal, to go into the lock. Not a nice sound hearing the propeller ping
on the bottom of the canal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kev hovered around for over 40 mins waiting for the VNF to arrive to fix the lock</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our mooring we had wanted to stop at was taken up by the cruiser that left before us this morning so we carried on to PK 111.2 a not very pretty mooring but adequate.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">We were shattered as it was another very hot day and we’d not stopped for lunch, so we were very tired and hungry.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">A sailboat moored alongside us for the night as they were struggling with depth with their 1.6m draft, (we are 0.9m).</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">They had sailed their boat across from USA so made our trip across the channel seem rather lame!!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We helped out a sailboat as the draught for them was too shallow to moor by the quay<br />so they moored alongside us</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">PK11.2 Thunimont
to PK Pont du Coney PK 119<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lovely mooring Port du Coney (Bain les Bains)</td></tr>
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119 to Fontenoy le Chateau PK 125.4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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trip to Fontenoy and there was plenty of space for us at the large port. We stayed 2 nights at Fontenoy as the
forecast wasn’t good for the Sunday. We
enjoyed a big thunderstorm Saturday night. Well I did, Kev slept all the way through it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An example of some the lovely views on this canal, a straight bit!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of trees and most of the the time a very smart cycle way which is extremely well used. We met one lady who had cycled all the way from Spain!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lock wall, looks like green velvet!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So many gorgeous views I just keep clicking the camera</td></tr>
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moor back at the town mooring even though its not that pretty. The canal sides are bulging out and the grass
(stinging nettles) are overgrown with large piles of dog poo, and we are charged
15 euros for the pleasure!! We decided to only
stay one night. We walked to the
supermarket to top up supplies and we take a look at the Marina visitor mooring below
lock 46 and decide we will move there on Wednesday morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nicer spot to moor on a very smart pontoon, 18 euros a night and no dog
poo!! We have lunch at the marina
restaurant and very tasty it was too. We
decided to stay at Corre today mainly because it was forecast to rain a lot
today and it has, so good decision!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A great visitor pontoon at the marina, all brand new</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Notice the lake to to left of the canal, full of water this was when we went past beginning of June</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The same view as we came back beginning of July now empty of water, <br />I hope we do get a good lot of rain to help the water shortage here in France</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Friday 16<sup>th</sup>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Epinal to Nomexy
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We left Epinal at
8.15am to get to the first lock just before 9am. At 10am we had
just gone past what looked like a gravel depot when we both thought “I wonder
if there are commercials working on this section of the canal?” when a few
minutes later we see one coming towards us!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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commercial barges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are very strange
looking as the skipper sits in a wheelhouse at the front of the barge, and as
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We saw this one coming up the lock so we decided to tie up to a fence and lamp post until it went past, <br />
our worst nightmare would to damage our propeller in a shallow section, <br />
the commercial barges take no prisoners!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The third barge we came across, ominously waiting for us to come out of the lock</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is where the commercial barges load up PK76</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We decide to moor
up at Nomexy as we had been recommended to go and see the fortress at
Châtel-sur-Moselle. We wait until 3.30pm to walk over to Châtel-sur-Moselle to join the 4pm tour. The underground rooms are supposed to be worth seeing but
we were told when we got there that they weren’t running English speaking tours as the tour guide
had an injury to her leg and we weren’t allowed to go down on our own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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mooring can be noisy with youths on motorbikes and mopeds but we suffered no annoying problems,
and it was nice to see groups of people playing boules very late into the evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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easy cruise to Charmes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a favourable mooring in the sense that it has good facilities, water and electric but it is
rather crowded with camper vans, overlooking the canal, but once we had moored
we got used to them being so close to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Storks nest made up for the crowded camper van park<br />
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at night with youths shouting and singing nearby until the early hours of the
morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is very hot at the moment so
the nights are warm and we have the skylights open, so noise does travel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was noisy Saturday night we decided to stay on at Charmes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was going to be a hot, windy day on Sunday, plus we had heard that two commercials would be coming up the canal so
we’d thought we’d give them a wide berth!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I know we are always looking out for large barges coming in the opposite
direction, but its horrible <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">knowing </i>there
is one definitely coming our way!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
worse when you know there is going to be two of them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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long, very hot day today to make up for being so lazy yesterday!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had an easy trip to Richardménil and
arrived to a busy mooring at just before 4pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is a strange mooring as the bollards are set quite a way back from
the side of the canal but there isn’t any space to walk so you have to step
over everyone’s ropes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We were also moored at the end of the quay, no view and it felt very claustrophobic. </span>The town of Richardménil is situated up on a hill, it was far too hot and we were far too
tired to explore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heat wave has
really set in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A busy mooring at Richardménil, we were moored in the far distance</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Tuesday 20<sup>th</sup>
June<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Richardménil to
Nancy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">18km/16 locks/7
hours aprox<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We had another
very long day and it was so, so hot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
left the Vosges Canal to join the Nancy Branch Canal. This short canal has 18
locks over 12 km.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It links the
valley of the Meuthe with that of the Moselle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We controlled the locks with the same zapper we’ve been using on the
Vosges canal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first 5 locks were
going up and they were awkward as the bollards are quite widely spaced so we
used just a bow rope and the engine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Something we personally aren’t keen on doing, as we have heard of the
bow rope failing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know how easily a
rope slices when under tension when we’ve had to cut a trapped rope going down
in a lock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You just touch it with a
sharp knife and bam, its cut through!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The remaining 13 locks are all down, 10 of them are all one after the other
over a very short distance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We caught up with
another boat (a small cruiser) up at lock no.1 of the group of 10 locks as they
had a problem with a lock not working, so we shared the next 13 locks with them
until we got to the end of the canal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bet they groaned when they saw us coming as I am sure we slowed them
down a little, and it was such a hot day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We were moored up
at Nancy by 4pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were almost feeling
ill it was so hot and we had no shade where we were moored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We waited until it was a bit cooler to go and
have dinner at Stanislas Square, but the heat and humidity was still there
until late in the evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">There have been
signs/talk that there could be problems on the waterways due to lack of water, so we
decided that we would leave the exploring of the Canal de la Marne au Rhin
towards Strasbourg for another year and we will make our way slowly back to
Roanne, making a detour down the river Saone to Lyon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We felt really
bad that we didn’t stay longer at Nancy, but the heat wave made it so
uncomfortable and being in a city environment seemed to make it worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will be back and hopefully we will spend
longer there exploring the city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were a little lonely moored on this side of the canal at Nancy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanislas Square was very impressive</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still 38.4C at 9.40pm in our wheelhouse</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Wednesday 21<sup>st</sup>
June<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Nancy PK164 to mooring on Nancy Branch before lock 10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We decided to
stop at a mooring by a supermarket after lock 26.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were able to take the trolley to the boat
so we bought loads more bottled water, as we’ve been drinking at least 4 x 1.5L
bottles a day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">It was due to be
another scorcher so we only went through 3 of the locks on the Nancy Branch
canal and moored by noon at a lovely, shady spot just before the flight of 10
locks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So different from our mooring at Nancy</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Thursday 22<sup>nd</sup>
June<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Lock 10 to
Richardménil PK 30<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">8km/15 locks/4hrs
15mins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">It was another
incredibly hot day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We travelled up the 10
locks in just over 2 hours, all working perfectly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see the next lock. They work in a chain so as you go through one lock, the next lock is getting prepared</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And yet another lock ahead!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">When we came out of the Nancy Branch canal to
turn left onto the Vosges Canal, a commercial was just going past, so it ends up
being in front of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is moving so
slowly, it takes us yonks just to travel the 1km to Richardménil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes our mind up about mooring there
again as we would take ages following this slow barge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bad timing as we leave the Nancy Branch canal as this commercial is just going past<br />
we follow it for 1km, painfully slow</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Its only 1pm so we decide to walk into the
town to find a boulangerie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bad decision!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a very steep hill, on a very hot day,
the boulangerie is closed and the supermarket is right at the end of the
town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we are walking there we notice
a huge storm heading our way, it was forecast so it wasn’t a complete
surprise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we realise we’ve left our
hatches open, so I run back to the boat whilst Kev continues to find the
supermarket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get back in time and
actually the storm just misses us, probably only by a few miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kev came back with a very flushed face,
overheated from the long walk but with a baguette in hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We get hooked up
to the electric and have our air conditioning on to cool our bedroom down
before going to bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bliss, a cool room
to sleep in!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We preferred this spot at Richardménil, we had more of a view</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Friday 23<sup>rd</sup>
June<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Richardménil PK30
to PK 43<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">13km/8 locks/
2hrs 45 mins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We have a lovely
cruise to moor up in a very quiet spot, shaded again by trees, no other boat
moored here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A bit different to
Richardménil, which both times has been jam packed full of boats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A peaceful mooring at PK43</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Saturday 24<sup>th</sup>
June<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">PK43 to Charmes
PK60.5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">17.5km/10 locks/4
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A pretty section of the canal</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Another great
cruise to Charmes where we decide to moor back at the same spot as before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a little medical worry, which we
decide it would be good to get some medical advice on, so being moored in a town
rather than in the middle of nowhere was preferable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We visit the local pharmacy and there was an
incredibly helpful lady who rang a emergency telephone number and arranges for
me to see a local Dr later that day and she also then helps us book a taxi to
get there as he is in the next town.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">I see the Dr, who
didn’t speak any Englsih, so with Google translate and my limited French I
manage to have a consultation and get a prescription for some antibiotics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Sunday 25<sup>th</sup>
June<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Charmes PK60.5 to
Epinal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We had a long
trip, all our 16 locks were going up, but we are very slick with them and they
all work well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wanted to leave on
Sunday and get through the section of canal where the gravel commercial barges
work PK76 to PK81 as we knew they didn’t work at the weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We weren't sure if we could moor up in Epinal
as we had heard the embranchment was closed due to low water levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when we got to the locks near to the turn
off we asked a VNF man if it was open and he surprised us by saying yes it
was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we were moored up by 3pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of space to moor, which was fab.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heat wave is breaking and there are
storms forecast over the next few days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">My medical
concern hadn’t been helped by the antibiotic I was given on Saturday so on
Monday we went off to the hospital in Epinal and after spending the morning
there being very well looked after, I came away with another prescription for
more antibiotics, 5 days worth this time, so hopefully these will work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are staying here in Epinal until we are
happy that I’m better and also the forecast isn’t good so we probably wouldn’t
have been travelling anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have had
some big thunderstorms and heavy rain, so hopefully this will alleviate some of
the water level concerns on the canals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A quieter Epinal port<br />
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Rangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-72502600373783946672017-06-15T07:06:00.001-07:002017-06-29T01:37:46.876-07:00Canal des Vosges Corre/Selles/Fontenoy le Chateau/Pont de Coney/PK111/Girancourt/Epinal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Fouchécourt PK 381 to Corre PK147 (Canal des Vosges)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We left Fouchécourt at 9am and had an easy trip to Corre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were sad to see the end of the navigable Soane but we may well return this way later in the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lock that took us onto the Canal des Vosges is a manned lock, we arrived just after 12 noon and there was a red light showing so we thought maybe we would have to tie up and wait until after lunch, but just as we’d almost tied up we noticed the light had turned green and we were through the lock and moored up by 12.30pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We had a lovely evening in the sun, and had dinner at the restaurant at the port, just a simple meal but it was fine, and nice to support the local businesses, we always complain when they are shut or closed down!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We decided to stay on Tuesday as the weather forecast was not good, it was very wet and windy and we had a big thunderstorm late afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We managed to walk to the local supermarket to top up our supplies in between the downpours .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first lock on the canal des Vosges, we are sadly leaving the navigable river Soane</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">15 euro a night to moor here, with water and electric, the bank was rather dilapidated</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Wednesday 7</span><sup style="font-family: Arial;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">June</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Corre PK 147 to Selles PK 137<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">At our first lock the clicker control seemed to go well at first, the light started flashing on the receiver box by the side of the canal, which showed it had accepted our command, but then as we went past it, it stopped flashing, and we couldn’t see the lock as it was around a corner. So we cruised along the canal to be able to see if the lock had been set into action, but NO, the red light was showing. So we had to reverse back along the canal to be able to point our controller at the receiving box to re-activate the lock. We only knew it had worked when we cruised back to the lock to see the red and green lights on to show it was getting ready for us to enter. Luckily after this bad start all the locks worked perfectly for us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">When we arrived at Selles, we couldn’t just cruise through, it was such a great mooring. So we decided to stop even though we hadn't cruised that far. There is a boulangerie that also sells fresh fruit and veg etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very easy control for the locks, only one button to press, the red one!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You point the control at this and if it has worked the yellow triangle on top of the box flashes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lovely quiet spot to moor. <br />
We saw the space station fly over later that evening, it was a beautiful clear moonlit night</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Selles PK 137 to Fontenoy-le Chateau PK 125.5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The canal is very pretty, very wooded, with a river flowing nearby most of the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were some sharp corners, we met on cruiser <i>just</i> before a tight bend so that was lucky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The canal coming into Fontenoy was very picturesque and narrow, but it opens up to a large port.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">We woke to a lovely sunny day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another barge left early ahead of us so we delayed our departure to 9.15 and were out of our first lock at 9.40am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had another great cruise; it is such a pretty canal, with not much traffic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we came out of lock 22 there was an empty pontoon in a very nice spot so we decided to moor up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its great not having a strict plan, or deadline, so we can stop whenever we fancy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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A peaceful spot which looked very different the next morning!<br />
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</style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On the Wednesday evening, Sharon and Alan (barge Drumsara) and </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Ken and Marion (barge Tammy) came to us for drinks, and we had a very enjoyable evening. They both departed this morning, they are both going in the opposite direction to us, we will be leaving on Friday.</span><!--EndFragment--></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Auxonne PK233.5 to Pontaller-sur-Soane PK251.5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We went to the market first thing to buy ourselves a cooked chicken and
our obligatory baguette.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We left Port
Royal. Auxonne around 10am and we had a wonderful trip to Pontailler and there
was plenty of space on the steps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve
moored here twice before travelling in both directions and have been lucky
enough to find a mooring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The restaurant
near the mooring has always been shut before, but when we went for a stroll we
were pleased to find the restaurant open, busy and full of life. It’s a
beautiful, hot sunny day so we were able to sit outside under the canopy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In the evening we had early evening drinks with Peter and Caroline off
Lumicona another dutch barge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve seen
them on and off over the past few weeks, so it was lovely to finally get to
know them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are off up the Canal de
Bourgougne et Champagne so we wont see them again for a while.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Saturday 27<sup>th</sup> May<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Pontailler-sur-Soane PK251.5 to Mantoche PK 276<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We left a little too early this morning as we got to the first lock at 8.45am and they don’t open until 9am, even though they are automatic. But we were able to tie up to a dolphin mooring near to the pulley we have to turn to activate the lock. While we were waiting for the lock lights to come on at 9am we were informed by a jogger who shouted over to us that there was a problem with the lock and the VNF were on their way out to fix it. They arrived at 9.15 and we were through by 9.35am so we weren’t delayed too much. We were moored up at Mantoche by 12 noon. It’s a lovely mooring, a favourite of ours, very pretty and we were lucky that it was quiet, most boats that moored up tended to just stop for lunch and move on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">In the afternoon a friend of mine stopped by for a couple of hours on their long journey home from Barcelona. They driven from Avignon and were going to stop at Troyes, but it was still a bit of a detour to come and see us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A couple of sunny days spent at Mantoche</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BBQ on the go!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mantoche PK 276 to Gray 283<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">7km/0 locks/35 mins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leaving Mantoche</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">There was lots of space on the quay when we arrived at Gray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a very convenient place to stop as there is a
good supermarket nearby and we were able to stock up on heavy items.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also there is free electric and water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We didn’t need the water but we made
advantage of the electric.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We enjoyed a couple of days at Gray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We wanted to go to a pottery shop up in the old part of town to replace
a bowl we had bought from them when we were here last and they were closed on
Monday, but open Tuesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The town looked a
little more alive this time around, some of the businesses looked a bit more
healthy which was good to see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of choice of moorings at Grey</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gray</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Wednesday 31<sup>st</sup> May<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Gray PK283 to Savoyeux PK 309 (ish)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">26km/4 locks/1 tunnel/4 hours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We have only been as far as Gray so now the river is all new territory
for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The locks are working really
well for us, and we’ve enjoyed the fact that they are automated, so we activate
it ourselves and we don’t have to inform the VNF when we are moving on as we don’t always
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s also been great not to have
too many locks and a river that’s wide and easy to navigate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We moored up at Savoyeux marina on a very short pontoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had rung up and informed the captianaire that
we were 18m long, he seemed happy enough for us to perch on the end of a
pontoon with most of our boat sticking out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We had aimed to go for a walk in the afternoon but we didn’t feel comfortable leaving the boat so precariously moored as there were strong gusts
forecast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had also planned to stay 2
nights but we decided to move on after 1 night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Savoyeux Tunnel entrance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A big easy tunnel to navigate</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stuck on the end of a pontoon, not ideal!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Thursday 1<sup>st</sup> June<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Savoyeux PK309 to Soing PK333<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">18km/2 locks/2 hrs 15 mins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We had another super mornings cruise and we were pleased to find our
intended mooring was vacant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wooden
pontoon looked a bit rickety but actually it was fine and it was a beautiful place to
moor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We walked into the nearby town
called Soing, mainly to see what the town moorings were like, they are a 3km
detour on the river which we’d decided not to take as we’d heard the town moorings
were too good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the moorings looked
fine, but it was busy with cruisers, so I’m sure they were pleased we
weren’t there taking up all the space!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was a small supermarket in the town and a restaurant (closed when we got there), plus a
miniature Eiffel Tower!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A quiet mooring at Soing PK 333</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soing village, with mini Eiffel Tower</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Friday 2<sup>nd</sup> June<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Soing PK333 to Port sur Soane PK365<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">21 km/ 5 locks/1 tunnel/3 hours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Another great trip to Port sur Soane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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</span>We were going to stay two nights but in the evening there were some
youths who were threw a stone at a house just by we were moored and it ricochet
off the house against our boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
youths ran off but it made us feel uneasy so we decided to move on after just
one night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of space at Port sur Soane</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We had a short trip to Fouchécourt and we were happy to be moored up in
a small marina on a floating pontoon, but there is also a large wooden quay we
could have moored up on if the marina was full.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The captainaire, Roger, is also the chef at the port restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was fully booked for dinner but had space
for us for lunch, and very nice it was too, so much so that we decided to book
lunch for the Sunday and we stayed two nights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Late afternoon the thunderstorm that was forecast arrived, not much
thunder and lightening but such a viscious wind and heavy rain, it felt like we
were in a car wash; our boat looked so clean the next morning!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were glad that we weren’t underway in the
storm; it was so violent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It then rained
steadily nearly all night but we woke up to another beautiful sunny day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luckily we were moored up as we had a tremendous storm</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sun did come back out again<br />
We were introduced to a new aperitif, Lillet, and very nice too! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lovely mooring, we will be definitely stopping hear again, possibly this year!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Sunday 7</span><sup style="font-family: Arial;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> May</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">10km/9 locks/3 hr 35 mins (1 hour delayed at first lock)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When we arrived in Dijon, at our last lock, there was a very helpful
eclusier who spoke really good English, and he asked us when we wanted to depart Dijon
and we said Sunday ( tomorrow) at 9am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said no
problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when we arrived at our first
lock this morning, there was no sign of a lock keeper and no
where to tie up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we pulled over the the side and I jumped off the
boat and ran up to the lock to see if there was any sign of a lock keeper, or a
telephone number to call.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No sign at all
of either!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I then ran back to the
lock at Dijon (about 0.75km) to see our friendly eclusier working that lock
with another eclusier and a hotel barge was in the lock departing Dijon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He seemed surprised no one was at that lock
for us as he had passed the message on when I had confirmed we were departing
at 9am Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he drove me back to
the lock and he worked the next few locks for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We arrived at Velars sur Ouche at 12.30am.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(We have subsequently found out that the telephone number to call is;-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">06 82 50 30 10 to contact lock keeper to either book the next mornings
lock or if one doesn’t appear even when you have booked one!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We were moored at Velars within sight of our first lock, so when no lock
keeper arrived by 9.10am, I walked up to the lock and found the VNF number to
call if there were any problems on a poster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
man on the end of the line told me “Il arrive” and about 5 minutes later a lock keeper
did arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took us to Pont du Pany
lock 38 and said we could moor in the lock for lunch and a lock keeper would be there at
13.00.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By 13.20 no lock keeper had
arrived so we phoned our special number and 15 minutes later a different lock
keeper arrived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were moored up at Moulin
Banet by 3.15pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It turned out to be a
pleasant evening after a grey day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
large hotel barge arrived and moored up at Moulin Banet for the evening. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The weather improved today and we had a lovely trip to La Bussière and
we were moored up by 11.45am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a
relaxing afternoon and enjoyed a bottle of bubbly in the evening to celebrate
my birthday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The weather was forecast to
be a beautiful day tomorrow so we booked a belated birthday lunch at L’Abbaye
de la Bussière so that we could eat on their patio overlooking their beautiful
grounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Two hotel barges arrived in the afternoon on Tuesday; there was just
enough room for us all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are no
notices saying when the hotel barges are arriving but they tend to be mid-week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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really beautiful spot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love hearing
all the birds singing their hearts out, and the odd cuckoo calling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">There are new electric and water bournes installed at the very smart
moorings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a hand written note
left by some thoughtful boater saying that you can pay at the Café or the
Marie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kev went to the Marie (town hall)
after our lunch at the hotel on Wednesday to be told he needed to go to the
café but it was closed Monday until Thursday!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We found out that the owner of the café in La Forge is also the Mayor.
When Kev went to the café on Thursday morning, Kev was told to meet him at the
Marie at La Bussière at 3pm where we could purchase a card to enable us to use
the electric and water. We bought 2kw of electric for 30 euros and 500 litres
of water for 6 euros.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we left on
Sunday morning and we had used up all our electric allowance but we had done
loads of washing, tumble drying, dishwashering, and used the electric oven to
try and use it up! Saying that it did seem rather expensive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were there early to make the most of the beautiful place<br />
it did busier!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They are left to roam the grounds, and are very friendly<br />
The ponies came up to our table before we had ordered our lunch and <br />
Kev said to the owner of the hotel "I couldn't eat a whole one!"<br />
Luckily the owner is English so understood what Kev meant!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">La Bussière PK 179.5 to Fleury sur Ouche PK197<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We had a great trip to Fleury sur Ouche, it was a long day but luckily
the thunderstorms that were forecast in the afternoon did not materialize until
the evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It did rain during the day but
only at lunchtime when we were moored up in Moulin Banet Lock 34.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moored in lock 34 Moulin Banet for lunch<br />
Storm clouds looming</td></tr>
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supermarket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we did a
big shop at the supermarket and we were able to take the shopping trolley right
to the boat so perfect for any heavy things we had purchased, wine boxes, milk
etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were joined by a hireboat on its
way downstream for the evening and a wide beam barge called Avalon arrived
going up stream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is starting to get a
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Velars sur Ouche PK202.5 to Dijon PK212.5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We were surprised when the hire boat didn’t leave at the same time as us
in the morning; we’d booked the first lock for 9am and assumed they would have
been asked to lock with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But after
two locks the eclusiers had realised that we could fit in the lock together so
we were asked to wait at lock 48 for the hire boat to join us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It made sense and we also then had two lady
lock keepers to work the locks so it speeded things up, as one of them was
particularly slow!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We arrived at Dijon
by 12.30.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The quay was empty but by the
evening it had filled up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Millie, a
Piper barge with owners John and Gill onboard arrived in the afternoon and we had
a couple of evening’s pre dinner drinks together, which was very enjoyable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are on their way to DBA Rally in
Auxerre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to buy the jetons required.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tried the
Marie and the tourist office in the centre of the city and we were given the telephone number of the
captiniere; when we finally got through to him and asked him if the electric
points were working yet he said NON! It seems such a shame for the huge investment
not to be able to use them and give the port some revenue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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really like it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a lovely run up by
the canal to the Lake, we had a lunch in town, which was ok, but not fabulous
but the weather was perfect so we were able to sit outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kev also had his haircut at a hairdresser and
the owner speaks really good English so no short back and sides this time
around!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think when Kev asks for not
to be cut off to a hairdresser in France who doesn’t speak English, he uses his
fingers to give an idea of how little he wants cut off, and they think its how long
he wants it to be!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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forecast to be better then for the next three days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve booked the lock at 9am on Sunday (lets
hope the message was passed on this time!) and we will take two days to get to
St Jean de Losne arriving on Monday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We’ve then booked Auxonne marina for Weds/Thursday, to start our trip up
the Soane/Petit Soane, once we get past Grey it will be pastures new for us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Piper barge Milly moored up behind us for a couple of evenings, they are on their way to Auxerre</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I didn't know Herons did Yoga!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Sunday 21<sup>st</sup> May<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Dijon PK 212 to Longcourt PK228<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">16km/14 locks/6.5 hrs inc 1 hour for lunch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We rang VNF yesterday evening just to confirm we were leaving Sunday morning at 9am.
We were ready at 9am to depart Dijon, but a hotel barge called Danielle was
locked first and then when the lock keepers tried to set the lock for us one of
the gates wouldn’t close so they had to call the fire brigade (Pompiers) and a
diving team arrived to sort out the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was a car wheel complete with it's tyre, blocking the gate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we finally departed at 11.30am and we had
to have lunch in the second lock as they had to go for lunch, so a short mornings cruise!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We shared locks with a lovely New Zealand
couple on a new to them, cruiser, called Soltana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We moored in a shaded mooring at Longcourt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We just caught up Danielle at Longcourt so it
was just as well we set off later from Dijon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The section of canal<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>up near Dijon
was still quite weedy so we were pleased to be finally past that section to
clearer water. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can just make out the divers in their diving gear</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Monday 22<sup>nd</sup> May<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Longcourt PK228 to St Jean De Losne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">14km/8 locks/4 hours <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We had a great trip to St Jean de Losne and we were lucky enough to get
a mooring on the quay again at SJdL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We decided to stay at SJdL until Wednesday morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The big hotel ship Avalon Affinity arrived
Monday evening and departed around 6.15pm Tuesday with a new set of
passengers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Around 6.30pm a young man with
a holdall came rushing over to us while we were sitting on the back deck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He showed us his phone
and an email with an address on <i>Quai National, St Jean de Losne</i> ......we said
yes, that’s where he was, he then said the word Avalon Afffinity, and we said
it's <i>gone/departed/left</i> here 20 mins ago….he said “Oh my God!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where can I get a taxi?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we presumed he was a new crew member
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the quay to see if they could help him arrange a taxi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do hope he got united with his ship in the
end and wasn’t in too much trouble.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Wednesday 24<sup>th</sup> May<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">St Jean de Losne PK 215 to Auxonne PK 233.5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We had a fantastic trip to Auxonne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Beautiful sunny weather, only one lock to negotiate and we were moored
up by 11.15am at Port Royal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John the
new harbormaster was very welcoming and we have a brilliant mooring on a very
friendly pontoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We had ordered online a Free.fr SIM card to arrive at Port Royal and it
was there waiting for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took us a
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<br />Rangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-73847038211191341932017-05-06T12:05:00.002-07:002017-05-25T05:31:13.230-07:00Canal du Bourgogne St Jean de Losne to Dijon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">St Jean de Losne to PK 217.5 on the Canal du Bourgone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We’d moved back onto the quay at St Jean d Losne on Wednesday as the
mooring we had in the port was only really supposed to be for the weekend. It’s
lovely being back on the river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
Thursday evening we were joined by 4 boats of various sizes that we knew from
Roanne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A beautiful evening moored on the Quay at St Jean de Losne</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">On Friday we woke up to a very, very foggy morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It luckily cleared enough for us to feel safe
to travel the small distance to the lock to take us up back into the port and
onto the Canal du Bourgogne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’d booked
the lock for 9am and we were out by 9.10am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A good start as we had decided we’d like to try and get to Dijon in one
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The weather forecast was for a
beautiful sunny day but the forecast for tomorrow was for rain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was clearer than it had been</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The quay with the fog clearing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were glad to be getting off the river, the visibility was very poor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marie and Guy on Sinfonia setting off for their travels </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guy taking a photo of me taking a photo of him!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We had a great trip because of the weather, once the fog had cleared but
the section of canal near to Dijon is suffering from weed and this slowed down
our progress somewhat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was like going
through a thick soup, and at times with weed wrapped around the propeller we
found stopping in the locks rather a challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At 6.10pm we got to two locks away form Dijon and our lock keeper said
that he could take us no further.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
said he lived in St Jean de Losne and had to travel back on the moped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The locks are supposed to close at 7pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we tied up at not such a pretty mooring, a
port full of barges, and next to what looks like a cement works in a commercial
area and the port was full of weed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
the welcome we had from barges that were moored there permanently was
lovely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They knew Marie and Guy off
Sinfonia another Piper barge (who we’d seen this morning).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So rather than being moored up <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in beautiful Dijon, where we’d hoped for a
nice dinner in the city, in the sunshine, we sat on the back deck and we opened
a bottle of Cremant du Bourgogne and relaxed as the sun went down; realising
that we would probably been too tired to go out for dinner tonight anyway!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was so weedy in some parts, it really made Rangali feel very sluggish</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A weed muncher! We hope that it will help with the weed problem by the time we return in about a weeks time<br />
We had to wait for this to come down in the lock before we could enter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This lot was wrapped around our prop</td></tr>
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too much of a rush, but we were ready to move off around 8.45am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily there was a nearby VNF office and Kev
went off to see if we could book the next lock, only to find they were
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called Le Bistro de L’Admiral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It didn’t
look much from the outside but I’d read it had great reviews on Trip Advisor
and we had a very nice set 2 course lunch for 14.50 euros each.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It started to drizzle while we were having
lunch, so we had a quick walk around old Dijon, and then made our way back to
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Rangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-82822096892554022682017-05-04T04:41:00.002-07:002017-05-04T04:55:19.652-07:00The end of the Canal du Centre/River Soane to St Jean de Losne<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Monday 24<sup>th</sup>
April<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">After a relaxing day on Sunday, we departed Fragnes Monday morning at 8.30am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A hire boat left
just in front of us. We both had to wait at the big lock 34b for a hotel boat
to come through and we were out of the lock by 9.40am.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">It was so lovely
being on the River Soane; it looked like glass it was so smooth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wanted to try and stop at Suerre
overnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had tried to pre-book but
we were told they weren’t that busy so were not taking bookings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we arrived at Suerre we couldn’t get
onto the main visitor pontoon as it was full so we carried on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason we wanted to stop was that we felt
it was better to arrive at St Jean de Losne late morning rather than late
afternoon as it gets busy there on the quay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But we needn’t have worried because as it is still early in the season there
was plenty of space for us when we arrived at 4.20pm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It was a long, but very easy day, and we now know we wont be cruising for at least a week so we can chill.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful River Soane</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This mummy is going to have her hands full, they swam past us on the river. <br />
The babies almost ran across the water to keep up with mum!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the two commercial locks we went through<br />
We've been through them before so know that they are pretty easy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arriving at St Jean de Losne, its so nice to see space for us on the quay, <br />
on the left just after the bridge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This monster turned around before the bridge and backed up to its mooring<br />
We were pleased we didn't know it was behind us on the river, it would have been travelling much fast than us. <br />
It arrived about 2 hours after us </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rangali and Ettie moored alongside each other, they are sisters with about one month in between in age<br />We loved having Richard and Julia moored alongside us, <br />but I'm not so sure they liked having to clamber around our boat to get to shore. <br />They are earlier risers than us and they very kindly bought us our baguette and croissants each day...we miss you Richard and Julia!!!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">I was down in the salon showing the boat to a prospective buyer, Richard, Julia and Kev were having a coffee on the back deck. They suddenly noticed that ALL 5 barges had started to drift away from their mooring on one large lump. It had become very windy, with strong gusts, and the wind turned the group of barges 180 degrees and they were slowly headed, bow first, towards the Piper gathering. Richard and Kevin ran to alert Simon Piper as he would know who to call for assistance. Simon then proceeded to use Monchique, his barge, as a tug to try and push the group of loose barges away to prevent damage to the moored up Piper barges. It was quite a stressful thing to watch, but luckily he was successful and then about 20 minutes later a pusher tug from the port arrived and managed to take the five barges back to their original position tie them up securely, albeit now facing the opposite way round!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Photo courtesy of Richard and Julia Ettie)<br />
Simon Piper on Monchique (turquoise barge) trying to stop the progress of the loose barges heading towards the <br />
Piper narrow boat and brand new Piper barge Octavian</td></tr>
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Fenders in hand to stop any damage, the bow of this <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kev was given a rope to hold that was attached to the rogue group of barges<br />
He's on the left in a light red top. He looks very nonchalant but he told me afterwards the rope was very degraded so couldn't tug too hard, it snapped later.</td></tr>
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Another hotel barge has arrived to join the other boats that were loose earlier. <br />
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Richard and Julia off Ettie and Stuart and Christine off Hilda May and of course Kev!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">40.5km/8 hours/16 locks (no stop for lunch)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Paray le Monial PK 102 to Blanzy PK 61.5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We had an epic day today, a really long, tiring day but we were pleased to find
a space for us at Blanzy. The
boulangerie we normally go to at Blanzy had closed down but there was another one over
the bridge. We bought a baguette, plus
some chocolate mousse cakes, and they were delicious. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm pleased I had a warm hat and gloves to wear, it was freezing!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love the Herons that we see along the way</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Wednesday 19<sup>th</sup> April<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Blanzy PK 61.5 to St Ledger-sur-Dheune PK33<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">32km/26 locks/7.5hrs </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">(no stop for lunch)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When we woke up this morning there was ice on the the roof. It was
a lovely sunny day again but there was a very strong, cold wind that persisted throughout the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It was a lot of locks to do in one day, we had a lock keeper with us for
some of them. We had 7 locks going up
and then 19 locks going down. Some of
the down locks are deep ones, 5m, but are easy as they have floating bollards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We were really tired when we got to St Ledger but we were pleased to
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Thursday 20<sup>th</sup> April <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">St Ledger PK 33 to Santenay PK25.5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">8km/4 locks/2hrs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It was
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It was another very cold day, and really windy which made getting into
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We really like the mooring at Santenay, so we stayed two nights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We walked into Santenay for lunch at Le Terroir, highly recommended </td></tr>
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for the start of this years cruise. We came back to the boat for a week
in March and de-winterised Rangali. We enjoyed amazing weather for that
week and we thoroughly enjoyed being back on board. We had to return to
the UK for various reasons and we finally came back to Roanne last Wednesday.
Back to some more glorious weather, we've been very lucky. Let's
hope that's how the summer will pan out for us. Famous last words!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to get to St Jean de Losne for the Salon Fluvial, where our Piper Boat builder
is having a Piper Rally/gathering, which is the last weekend in April. We have one
small problem, a deep lock (7.2m deep) called Bourg Le Comte, is being renovated and
is behind schedule. We drove to see the lock last week and there was no
sign of the new gates, and there seemed to be a lot of work still to do to get
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Saturday/Sunday/Monday. So we set off today (Friday) at 10.30am and
arrived at Chambilly at 4pm. Our next lock is Bourg Le Comte, so we can
go no further. This evening walked to the lock (a 5 mile round trip) to
have a nosey, they were still working at 6.30pm. The lock gates are
there, and fitted and we were told it '<i>could</i>' be open tomorrow,
(Saturday), at some point, so fingers crossed, as we don't want to be rushing
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everywhere; we spotted a few Stork circling up high, and one sitting on a nest,
Black Kites, Heron, a Red Squirrel, we heard Woodpeckers pecking and so on and so
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We walked to Bourg le Comte Lock to see how the work was progressing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can just see an engineer walking at the bottom of the lock, it shows how deep it is - 7.2m</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Chambilly to
Digoin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">We set off from
Chambilly at 12.30pm after seeing a small cruiser arrive and moor up at
Chambilly, so we knew the Bourg lock was now open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another barge (Vagabond) moored at Chambilly went ahead
of us, and we finally got through the big lock by 2pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had another good cruise, but a long one
and we moored up at Digoin at 6pm at the Halte Nautique.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one was there to take any money so we
moored for free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It turned very chilly
in the afternoon, so warm weather gear was required.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Danton Peniche returning to Roanne, they've stopped for lunch after going through the Bourg lock<br />
We were pleased to see them moored up as we had heard they were somewhere along the canal<br />
and we didn't fancy meeting it along the way</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There is some finishing off to do at the lock but we were very surprised it opened today after seeing it yesterday evening</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spanking new lock gates at both ends of the lock</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We caught up with Barge Vagabond waiting for a hire boat to exit the next lock (over 2 hours after leaving Bourg lock)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look of terror on the hire boaters faces as we slowly come towards them, coming off the Digoin Aqueduct.<br />
They will have only just picked up their boats 1km away, it was quite windy so quite difficult for them</td></tr>
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space on the quay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are staying here
two nights to be able to give Rangali a good wash on Monday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a barge moored alongside us over the
winter at Roanne, so we couldn’t give that side of the barge a good clean when
we washed her down in March.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a
lovely pizza in a local restaurant for lunch and then Kev was happy to come
back to the boat to watch F1 race, I had a snooze on the sofa, red wine for
lunch is not a good thing! Its now a sunny evening, but with black clouds looming. the forecast is quite good for the rest of the week, but its going to be quite cold, especially at night, some nights its forecast to be minus 1.</span><br />
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Rangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-56000514233123581972016-09-17T06:47:00.000-07:002016-09-17T06:50:03.897-07:00Canal Lateral continued; Menetreol sous Sancerre/Lere/Sury-pres Lere/Chatillion sur Loire/BriareCanal Lateral á Loire continued; Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre/Lere/Sury-pres Lere/Chatillion sur Loire/Briare<br />
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Saturday 13th August<br />
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We stayed the weekend at Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre, which we thoroughly enjoyed. It is a busy little mooring. We did have a group of young fishermen who turned up early evening, every evening and fished right by our stern, or more to the point fishing under our stern, hitting our boat occasionally with their weights and hooks which was rather annoying. <br />
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We decided to walk to Sancerre from the port. Its not that far but it was a very hot day, and all up hill so we took it slowly. The town was very busy as it was a holiday weekend. We bought some wine from our favourite Sancerre wine producer, Vacheron and we arranged for it to be delivered to the boat later that evening.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A hot walk up the hill to Sancerre but the views of the vineyards was worth it.</td></tr>
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We had a great evening at the hotel restaurant joining in on the festivities. There was a set menu for the dinner, all very nice, a disco played down the street near to where we were seated for our meal, luckily the music only got loud when the meal was finished. There was a candlelit procession through the town with mainly young children followed by a very good firework display.<br />
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On Sunday we cruised to Lere and stayed there the night and then on Tuesday we cruised 1.6km to Sury Près Lere. We preferred the mooring at Sury Près Lere. Lere has a couple of hotel barges that moor there on a regular basis, the schedules for them are on display. Quite a few of the bollards are wooden and broken, whereas Sury Près Lere the mooring has better bollards and a nicer feel, and no road noise.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I enjoy watching the House Martins skimming the water for insects<br />
They are such skilled fliers.</td></tr>
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We moored easily at Chatillion sur Loire and had lunch at Le Vieux Port restaurant which is a popular restaurant with locals, cyclists and tourists. Just a simple set menu, but very tasty.<br />
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We walked over the nearby footbridge over the canal after lunch to the old Loire lock that connected the river Loire to the canal Lateral a Loire via the Châtillon Branch canal before the Briare Aquaduct was built. Its a really lovely area to walk around, we missed seeing this when we travelled in the opposite direction 3 years ago.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There is a huge basin just before the old Mantelot Loire lock<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We see so many heron by the canals in France</td></tr>
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Wednesday 17th August<br />
10km 2 locks 1 aqueduct<br />
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We left Châtillon at 8.15am and we were over the Briare Aqueduct by 9.10am. It was a beautiful sunny morning. We had a great trip to Briare port, we moored on the visitor pontoon for two nights. When we came through this was 3 years ago, it was our first year in France and we were nervous of going down the old Briare canal now called the Canal Henri IV incase there wasn't room enough to easily turn around, shows how much more confident we are now.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are beautiful flowers all over Briare</td></tr>
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We had a successful stay in Briare. Our black tank pump had stopped working, so we had ordered a new pump to be delivered to Briare port. The parcel was there waiting for us when we arrived, and we had the lovely job of changing pumps, but what joy when we switched it on and it was working again! <br />
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This is as far as we are travelling this year, we are turning around to retrace our steps, taking it nice and slow. Rangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-38982067110626916932016-08-12T09:44:00.002-07:002016-08-12T10:00:26.621-07:00Canal Lateral a Loire continued..Beaulon/Gannay/DecizeFleury-sur-Loire/Nevers/Corres Les Barres/Beffes/Menetreol sous SancerreWe've had a fabulous time carrying on our journey along the Canal Latéral à Loire. We've travelled this canal before but I'd forgotten how it changes after Nevers. From Digoin to Nevers it is a wide, easy canal, most of the bridges are wide so you hardly have to slow down for them, but that then does make the canal a little boring. After Nevers to where we are now, near Sancerre, it gets much more picturesque, with narrower bridges, nicer views, and canal banks a little more overgrown.<br />
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I've really enjoyed the fact that along a major part of the canal there is the Velo Route 6, a cycle route that runs thorough 10 countries for 3653 km from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Velo Route 6 follows the Loire, Doubs, Rhine and the Danube. This means its been very simple to carry on with my running, along the cycle route, away from cars, and with the fabulous view of the canal.<br />
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We see lots of cyclists with their panniers fully laden following the route for their holiday<br />
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As we have now got into the month of August we have come across lots of businesses closed for their annual holidays. This can be very disappointing when you find a highly recommended restaurant on Trip Advisor to find it is closed for 3-4 weeks! <br />
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We have also noticed a lot more hire boats around, which is good to see as I am sure with the breach of the canal north of us it means that there aren't any private barges coming down the canal from Paris.</div>
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While we were in Nevers Port we had a fabulous evening with some friends who stayed at the city on their way back from the south of France. </div>
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We are now moored at Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre. We had a lovely cruise here, a beautiful sunny morning, no wind, so very still waters that make for good photos. We've been very lucky with our moorings so far. Its alway great when you plan to moor up somewhere you especially like, to arrive and find a perfect sized space for Rangali!</div>
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Friday 29th July</div>
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Beaulon to Gannay 2 hrs 14km 3 locks</div>
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We saw more Storks circling high in the sky at Gannay, and we even saw a Stork nest perched on top of a dead tree trunk.<br />
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Saturday 30th July</div>
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Gannay to Decize 4 hrs 16km 5 locks</div>
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The lock keeper at Gannay was a little slow getting us through which meant we got to Decize automatic lock just after 12 noon so we had to wait until 1pm to get into the marina.</div>
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We enjoyed staying at Decize marina but we were disappointed to find the Charolais Restaurant in the town had closed down, it was a thriving business when we where there two years ago. Decize is easy to stay at as there is a nearby supermarket within easy walking distance.</div>
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Tuesday 2nd August</div>
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Decize to Fleury sur Loire 2.25 hrs 11.5km 2 locks</div>
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The boulangerie was open, (closed on Wednesdays)<br />
A very nice mooring with a cafe that is open for lunch and dinner</div>
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Wednesday 3rd August</div>
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Fleury sur Loire to Nevers 5 hrs 22.5km 5 locks<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Its about a 2 mile walk into the city of Nevers from the port, <br />
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Sunday 7th August<br />
Nevers to Cours Les Barres 5.5 hrs 23km 5 locks</div>
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Monday 8th August </div>
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Cours les Barres to Beffes 1.5hrs 8.5 km 3 locks</div>
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Beffes is a really lovely mooring. A lot of investment has been made into the facilities for the town. The quay is immaculate, water and electric that you pay for by credit/debit card 5.6 euros for 24 hrs. the washing/dryer machine was rather busy!</div>
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Rob and Pam off Barge Sojourn arrived at Beffes on Tuesday, they are making their way back along the canal from Briare. We had two very sociable evenings with them and we really look forward to seeing them again in Roanne at the end of September.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I enjoyed a bike ride with Pam and Rob along some of Velo route 6<br />
Charity sur Loire in the background</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made the mistake in going for a run late afternoon<br />
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Thursday 11th August </div>
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Beffes to Champalay (Nearish Pouilly Sur Loire) 4 hrs 20.5km 4 locks</div>
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We got to our first lock at 9am, having booked it for 9am the day before. We had noticed when we left Beffes that the water level was very high. We are not sure what happened overnight, maybe someone didn't leave to sluices in the correct position, but we had to wait at the lock for about 45 mins before we were let through, with the reason being that there wasn't enough water depth on the other side of the lock. This meant we didn't get to our last planned lock of the day before 12 noon so we had to wait until 1pm to be let though.</div>
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After moooring up at Champalay we walked 4.5km into Pouilly sur Loire to buy some bottles of Pouilly Fume. We found a wine producer that was happy to deliver to the boat as it was too far to carry more than a couple of bottles of wine and we'd bought 24!</div>
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Friday 12th August</div>
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Champalay to Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre 1.45 hrs 9km 2 locks<br />
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A lovely mooring, right next to a busy little restaurant and there is a boulangerie, open this time, last time we were here they were on holiday.<br />
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We have planned to go into Briare Port and we have arranged for a parcel to be delivered there. I emailed Dorothee the Captainaire today just to say that a parcel would be arriving for us and when we thought we'd get there. About 30 minutes later, Kevin was accosted by a lady by our boat asking if he was the husband of Debbie....He was a little confused.....it turns out that Dorothee is here on a boat taking a little holiday and had just received my email and then saw Rangali moored just along from her so shecame to talk to us directly. She has found Briare Port extremely quiet this year because of the breach in the canal, so there has been no traffic from the north, so she decided to take a break while its quiet. Dorothee reckons the canal is due to open at the end of August.<br />
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Rangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-91672502700609905362016-07-27T05:29:00.000-07:002016-08-12T07:15:44.029-07:00Our 2016 Cruising begins- Roanne/Briennon/Artaix/Le Croix Rouge/ Canal Lateral a Loire Coulanges/Dijou/BeaulonWe've really enjoyed our first week cruising. Some moorings have been very quiet, so no socialising, other moorings have been very sociable, we really like both. We are heading towards Briare where we will probably have to turn around as there was a breach in the canal north of Briare which may not be repaired by the time we get there. We plan to have a relaxed time cruising this year, repeating canals we've travelled before but stopping at different moorings, where we can. We will be returning to Roanne for our winter mooring at the end of September all being well.<br />
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Day 1 - Roanne to Briennon 3 hours 15km 3 locks</div>
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Day 2 -Briennon to Artaix 2.5 hrs 15km 0 locks </div>
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Day 3 -Artaix to Le Croix Rouge 19km 4 locks </div>
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Day 4 -We stayed at Le Croix Rouge (Thunderstorms forecast that never appeared) We saw 3 Storks circling far in the distance</div>
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Day 5 -Le Croix Rouge to Coulange 3 hrs 13km 4 locks</div>
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Day 6 -We stayed at Coulanges so that we could watch the Hungarian Grand Prix </div>
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Day 7 -Coulanges to Dijou 2.5 hrs 12km 3 locks </div>
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Day 8 -Dijou to Beaulon 1.5 hrs 12km 3 locks</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our first lock, about a half a meter drop, hardly worth tying on for!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Le Croix Rouge on the Roanne Canal - A good mooring, electric and water you pay for via tokens <br />
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We are always happy when we find a local boulangerie and its open!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beaulon, we stayed here 2 years ago, a nice mooring but rather busy with motorhomes<br />
We spent a couple of sociable evenings with Andrew and Laurel off Affleur D,O</td></tr>
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Rangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-13458677420970327032016-02-21T06:19:00.001-08:002016-07-27T06:18:31.822-07:0010k Race for Life Up-date<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 10th Salisbury 10k Race<br />
Completed in 1 hour 6 mins and 21 secs, a tough second half of course, hilly and off road.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first ever 10k Race February 2016<br />
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While in France last year we met a very inspirational woman who was entering the York Marathon, and despite the souring temperatures last summer in France, she managed to train successfully to complete her first marathon.<br />
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She inspired me to start running and on 26th October last year I walked/ran 1 minute alternately for a mile and I slowly increased my distance and speed to be able to run 10k on a very hilly course at Longleat in 1:07:13<br />
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I'm taking part in the Salisbury 10k 2016 11:00 on 10/07/2016 to raise money for Cancer Research UK and I'd really appreciate your support. I'm going to be raising money in memory of Edgar James Anders (my Dad).<br />
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It's easy to donate online with a debit or credit card - just visit my JustGiving page - any small donation is gratefully received<br />
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http://www.justgiving.com/owner-email/pleasesponsor/debbiebutler44<br />
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JustGiving sends your donation straight to Cancer Research UK and automatically reclaims Gift Aid if you are a UK taxpayer, so your donation is worth even more.<br />
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Thank you for your support and if you see me running along the canals and rivers in France give me a wave!<br />
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Debbie<br />
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I completed my Race for Life on 10th July in Salisbury UK in 1 hour 6mins 21 seconds and raised £264 plus £55 Gift Aid. I have caught the running bug and have managed to continue training now we are back in France onboard Rangali. The canal towpaths/cycleways are great for training, and no steep hills!!<br />
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stretch of the canal Latéral à la Loire, the fog was really thick, we could
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The fog cleared enough for us to see the entrance to the<br />
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Boulangerie was closed for holidays!<br />
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Its a nice quiet place to moor<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 14pt;">We were lucky to find a mooring spot on the quay at Melay. We are really enjoying our slow trip along this canal.</span></div>
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Electric and water for 7 euros</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 14pt;">Briennon to Roanne</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 14pt;">The canal de Roanne á Digoin is a beautiful canal, with great views of the countryside as you travel along it. The locks are very gentle; the only downside is that in front of some of the locks there is a strong flow of water (especially on lock 5 Montgraillloux) which makes entry to the lock very tricky, Kev did a fab job of not hitting the lock walls as we entered. The bow thruster comes in very handy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We drove to Chambery and came back to Grenoble over the mountains</td></tr>
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did some sight seeing, ate out in a few restaurants, carried on with
re-varnishing the wheelhouse and some of our deck furniture, and we went to the
market in Paray on the Friday morning, which was a lot bigger than we’d
expected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mooring had lots of
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mooring at Paray is very good, for our size boat it cost us 13 euros a night,
which includes water and electric.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
downside was that there is a big park next to the mooring where they had been a
huge event over the summer and they were in the process of dismantling the
marquees, which took all week, with clattering and banging, and revving of engines
of cranes, high lift platforms and forklift trucks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some days they started at 7am not finishing
until after 7pm and worked all over the weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can’t have been easy for them in the high
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it had been since we got back onboard in July.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Paray has a good train service to Dijon and then onto Auxonne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a very nice scenic drive back via
Beaune and the vineyards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We enjoyed the
drive because of the scenery <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">and</b> the
air-conditioning as it was another very hot day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sunday we drove to Roanne, to leave the car for a couple of weeks as its where
we are wintering Rangali.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’d looked on
line to see that there was a train service from Roanne to Paray for only 9.30
euros.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we got to Roanne railway station
to buy our train ticket we found that we would be on a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">TGV ‘autocar’</b>, which is a very posh coach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was actually very nice to be on a bus, we
had the front seats and had a great view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We also had the pleasure of a local radio station and 70’s/80’s music,
which you certainly don’t get on the train.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was being dismantled over the week we were at Paray<br />quite noisy at times</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We saw more monks last year walking around the town<br />but I did manage to spot one!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Views of the vineyards on the train from Paray to Auxonne</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 14pt;">We woke up to another sunny morning, after a very hot and humid night. We left Paray at 8.40am, and slowly made our way to the first lock. We’d booked it for 9am, and sure enough the VNF van was there and the lock was ready for us, as was the second lock, with the same VNF man waiting for us. As he’d been present for the first two locks, we assumed he was going to be at the next lock, which was the final lock on the canal du Centre, but when we arrived, the red light was showing and no sign of any VNF van or man. We hung around for a while, thinking maybe another boat was coming in the opposite direction. Eventually we got fed up with waiting and rang the control centre. We told them which lock we were at and that the red lights were showing. A few minutes later a chap walked out of the lock keepers cottage went into the lock office and he set the lock into motion for us. We don’t know what went wrong with their very efficient management of the locks, they’ve been excellent all the way along the canal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 14pt;">We arrived in Digoin at 11.30am. We decided not to stop at the port du plaisance as we didn’t need water or electric. We had planned to stop after the aqueduct that goes over the Loire but we knew there were trees by the mooring and there was a big thunderstorm and heavy rain forecast and we didn’t fancy being covered in leaves. So after the port du plaisance at Digoin we looked out to see if we could moor up and we found lots of space and no trees. No bollards but the steel pilings have holes in them that we were able to thread our ropes through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our mooring at Digoin, <br />we liked it better than the port du plaisance which feels rather claustraphobic</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The aquaduct we will go over to leave Digoin -<br />The beginning of the Canal Lateral a la Loire</td></tr>
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Rangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-50621593689417937332015-08-25T07:46:00.001-07:002015-08-25T07:46:59.624-07:00Santenay to St Léger/St Léger to St Julien/St Julien to Génelard/Génelard to Paray<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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17<sup>th</sup> August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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set off at 8.45am and we arrived at our first lock of the day around
9.30am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the locks today were around
2.5m deep, and easy to operate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were
pleased to see our first lock ready for us and green lights showing, so we
entered and all worked well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our second
lock had two red lights and we hung around for a short time, thinking maybe a
boat was coming the other way…..and we were disappointed to see it was a large
hotel boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We backed away from the lock
as the exit had a bit of a corner for the hotel boat to negotiate, and he
passed by us, no problem at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the
hotel boat went past he warned us of another hotel boat coming our way after
the next lock……it was quite a twisty part of the canal, so we took it slowly…..its
good to know a hotel boat is coming but its also nerve wracking…..wondering
when you are going to meet it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily
it was just after a bend, and we passed each other ok.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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arrived in St-Léger-sur-Dheune around 11am, and our planned mooring spot was
available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had been a great couple of
hours cruise, sunny and warm, but this afternoon the heavens have opened and
we’ve had heavy rain for a few hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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noticed a big lack of barges on the Canal du Centre, plenty of hire boats, a
few cruisers, some motor sailboats, but not many barges our size.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are wondering if the warnings on the VNF
website of lack of water this year, and the fact this canal closed early last
year due low water levels has put people off coming this way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We haven’t noticed any problems with depth,
so we hope to be able to continue to take our time along the canal du Centre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light"; font-size: 14.0pt;">When
we were in Verdun, we had dinner in a restaurant that used a throw away pourer
that was put into the wine bottle we had ordered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We kept it as a memento of our meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was advertising the name of a wine producer, (not the
wine we were drinking) <b><i>Antonin Rodet</i></b>, a burgundian wine producer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This morning, eagle eyed Kev noticed a sign
by the side of the canal advertising Antonin Rodet as we came into St Ledger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We looked online this afternoon and see that
Antonin Rodet winery is 5 miles away in Mercurey, and they offer wine tasting tours….so we’ve
booked a tour for tomorrow!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like to
think that the effort they have made in marketing has paid off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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18<sup>th</sup> August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ride to Mercurey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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made a big mistake in not looking at the map properly to see that Mercurey, where we had booked our wine tour was up a very, very long hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also made the mistake in not taking with
us our bottles off water and it turned out to be a very hot day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In spite of this we did enjoy our cycle trip
to Mercurey, and the wine tour was pretty good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We did end up buying some more wine….so that’s it now, no<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>more, we are full to the gunnels!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful view from the top of the hill we had just cycled up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our mooring at St Leger<br />Lots of Red Squirrels were running around the trees</td></tr>
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19<sup>th</sup> August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Leger to St Julien sur Dhuene<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had a great trip to St Julien, all the locks worked well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The St Julien mooring is in the middle of two
5m deep locks and you certainly get lots of movement while you are moored up
with the changing levels of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
had heard that the restaurant here was pretty good, and we had a walk to look
at it as it looked pretty quiet, to find a notice to say they had <b><i>just</i></b> gone on
their annual holidays!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We didn’t mind
too much as we have had some brilliant meals out recently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were the only boat moored up here over
night, it does seem quiet on the canal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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20<sup>th</sup> August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">We had a long day, with 8 locks going up, 5 of them the deep locks, but we did have quite a lot of support from VNF guys, especially in the deep locks, which meant we didn’t have to reach for the blue cord to activate the lock.</span><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 18.6666660308838px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">We were also very lucky that we didn’t have to share a lock until the last 5 downward locks.</span><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 18.6666660308838px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">We were pleased to find space for us at Blanzy and we stayed for two nights. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 18.6666660308838px;">Kev did a fuel top up as there is a fuel station really close by and we also cycled 2km to the nearby supermarket. Its really good only being able to buy what you can carry on your bike, it stops you buying too much! There is free electric and water here at Blanzy.</span></div>
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22<sup>nd</sup> August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had a pretty good trip to Génelard, although at our first lock we made the
mistake of entering too quickly after a boat had exited, you are supposed to
wait for the green light to show before you enter, we forgot to check.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily there was a VNF man at the lock, and
he managed to reset the lock so that it worked ok for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lesson learnt!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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were in two minds whether to stop at Monceau Les Mines, if there was a hammerhead mooring available we’d stop, but there wasn’t, so were carried on through the 3 lift bridges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The first lift bridge has a cord to pull.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had to wait a little while as there were
lots of pedestrians crossing the bridge as it was market day in town.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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really like the Canal du Centre, it is a very pretty canal, nice locks when you
are descending, a few twists and turns in the canal to make it interesting, and
a few narrow bridges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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arrived in Génelard at 1.30pm, with loads of moorings available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
afternoon we had a walk around the small town, and visited the WW2 Demarcation
Line museum by the port.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Génelard was on
the situated on the Demarcation Line between the Occupied Zone and the Free
Zone and there was a German Check point in the town, where everyone had to have
a pass to move from one side of the line to the other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are information points all around the town giving <br />the history of the town<br /><br /></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We
decided to stay two nights in Génelard as the forecast wasn’t brilliant for the
next two days. There is a brilliant hardware shop in town, last year we were here, it was closed, I think it was a Sunday/Monday, this year it was closed due to their annual holidays....maybe it will be open next time we visit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The moorings at Génelard got busier over the two days we were there.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love the Art Deco look of this old industrial building in the town<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An unusual 'boat' arrived into Génelard</td></tr>
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left at 8.50am and arrived in Paray-le-Monial at 12.40pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We shared the locks with a small cruiser that
was travelling from Nice to Paris.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
the locks worked perfectly, all green lights when we arrived and there was a
nice mooring space available for us at Paray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have decided to stay here till Monday, as its one of our favourite
stops and the forecast is for hot and sunny weather. Photos of Paray to follow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-23135747843493900352015-08-16T11:51:00.000-07:002015-08-16T12:02:00.740-07:00Fragnes to Rully/Rully to Santernay<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';">We set off at 9am and we were very lucky that a cruiser left at the same time, just ahead of us, and they kindly waited for us and we went through the 8 locks together. As they were in front in the locks they had to pull the blue cord to activate the locks, 3 of which were the deep 5m locks which have floating bollards. All the locks filled gently which was a relief as last year we found the locks filled quite viciously going up the other way on the Canal du Centre. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';">We were aiming for a mooring at Rully, where we knew there was only space for one barge, and we were really pleased to see it was vacant so we moored there at 11.30am. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">We luckily went into the locks with this cruiser<br />
so they had to deal with pulling the blue cord to activate the lock<br />
I bet they cursed when they saw us turn up behind them at the first lock!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">These big 5m locks filled nice and gently<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Our mooring at Rully<br />
We sat outside late one night to spot shooting stars,<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';">We cycled 2km into Rully to try and find somewhere that was willing to deliver wine and cremant to our boat. Last year we found a cave quite near to the canal but they wouldn’t deliver so we could only buy what we could carry on our bikes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';">In the centre of Rully we found one smart wine producer, which had a sign that said it was open and we went in. Before we started a tasting we asked if they would deliver to our boat, the lady said yes, but after our tasting and after we'd decided to buy 24 bottles of wine and cremant, she then said they didn’t deliver….she must have misunderstood our previous question….so we explained we’d come by bike and that our boat was only about 5 mins drive away by car and we weren’t leaving until tomorrow morning but she still said NON! So off we went again in search of someone who would deliver. Luckily we found one open and willing to deliver and we ended up buying 30 bottles a mixture of white Rully’s and white and rosé Cremant du Bourgogne.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';">We then went for a fabulous lunch in the village square, certainly somewhere we would be returning to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Briday were happy to sell and then deliver our wine to our boat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">We had a fabulous lunch in the town square</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';">Friday 14<sup>th</sup> August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';">Rully to Santenay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';">8 km 3 locks 2 hours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';">We could see our first lock of the day from our mooring at Rully, so at 9am we waited for the light to come on and for it to be green. Nothing happened, so at 9.10am we rang the control centre number and we were told an eclusier would arrive shortly to fix it. He arrived in his van, he did something at the lock and the light went green and at 9.30am we went through our first lock of the day. The second lock was a deep 5m lock, with floating bollards. We had walked to have a look at it the previous evening, so we knew the blue cord came down where the ladder was at the front of the lock. After putting our middle and bow rope on the nearest floating bollard to the ladder, I pulled the blue cord, nothing happened, I pulled it again, and again, nothing. Its quite daunting being in the deep lock, so with no intention of climbing up the ladder out of the deep lock, we rang the control centre again, and the same eclusier arrived in his van. He then opened the lock house and set the lock in motion for us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';">The third lock was another deep 5m lock, this we think we operated ourselves, although the eclusier was around talking to some hire boats waiting to come down the lock. The deep locks filled very gently and on the last deep lock we just had a middle line on the floating bollard and I was able to reach the blue cord to pull it to set the lock into action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';">We were aiming for Santenay, and had our fingers crossed there would be space at the mooring for us, and there was…..hurray!! We planned to stay here for the weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';">We cycled into Santenay, and we bought some more wine, white Santenay and Aligote, and more cremant, and they happily delivered to our boat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">I pulled the blue cord and nothing happened<br />
The blue cord is hidden, you find it behind the 5m ladder</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Beautiful stretch of canal past Chagny on the way to Santenay<br />
vineyards are in view up on the hillside</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">We couldn't understand why a small newsagent/tabac in Santenay had a poker set in a smart carry case for sale in the window looking very dusty and with a sun bleached display box.....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">.....then we realised that the town may have an interest in Poker as they have their very own Casino<br />
We saw signs to Santernay Casino and thought it was the local Casino chain of supermarket!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We decided as a bit of fun to buy the poker set....it weighed a ton....11.5kg to be exact. I waited outside the shop with the bikes and sent Kev in to buy it. The poker set came with a cardboard outer display box. Kev said to the lady serving him (in english and sign language) that he didn't need the cardboard box.....she then disappeared into the back of the shop and found him a fresh looking set with a box that wasn't bleached by the sun...after he paid for the poker set he then proceeded to take it out of the box and hand the cardboard box back to her and walk out of the shop....I think she must have thought he was mad!!</span><br />
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Cooking line caught sword fish on our Cobb BBQ</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Fab views of vineyards on our cycle ride along an old disused railway line</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Great meal in a very nice restaurant in Santenay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">A fantastic fishmongers in Chagny</td></tr>
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Rangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-89389075772820900422015-08-16T11:32:00.000-07:002015-08-16T11:32:08.642-07:00Seurre to Verdun-sur-le-Doubs/Verdun to Fragnes (Canal du Centre)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Seurre
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7<sup>th</sup> August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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enjoyed our stay at Seurre, it was extremely hot and humid again which left us
feeling very lethargic. So we didn't do very much except perspire!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">We
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</span>We were rather confused as we were told to arrive between 12 and
2pm….this is usually when the captainaire’s take their lunch but we found out
when we arrived that the captainaire also runs the café at the port du
plaisance so prefers people to arrive when he’s working over lunchtime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We left at 9.30am and made really good time,
so we tried to slow down to try arrive after 12, but we still arrived early but luckily
the captainaire was there to show us where we were going to moor and he helped
with our ropes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a really
picturesque mooring, we were really pleased that we stopped there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Going down at ecluse Ecuelles<br />It was another very hot day</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arriving at Verdun sur le Doubs<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were very surprised to see a commercial <br />come past us at our mooring at Verdun<br />it is coming down the Doubs to join the Saöne</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Last night there was a big thunderstorm which helped to clear the air. In the morning we
woke up to really heavy rain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
forecast to be a horrible day but we decided to move onto Fragnes, so I dressed in my
wet weather gear, waterproof dungarees and jacket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily there was only one lock to deal with
which was the deep 10.76m lock that was going to take us up onto the Canal du
Centre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was still pouring with rain
at the lock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we approached we were
uncertain if we were going to have to wait a long time as we had read on the VNF
website that it was only operating at specific times to preserve water but as
we approached the light went green and red and we could see water coming out so
we knew the lock we being prepared for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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with our name and red and white tape. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lock 34b to take us up onto the Canal du Centre<br />Nearly 11m deep</td></tr>
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had confirmation from Julia and Richard on Ettie that they had managed to get a
mooring at Chalon sur Saone so we set off on our bikes to see them late
afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We managed to find them at
their unconventional mooring and we had a great time catching up and talking
all things Piper and French barging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Their guests, Malcolm and Mandy had gone for a look around the city and
arrived a while later so we hope we managed not to bore them too much talking
about boats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was so lovely to see
Richard and Julia onboard Ettie, it was a shame we didn’t moor at the same
spot, but possibly a good thing as we would have drunk far too much!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia and Richards mooring at Chalon<br />The port du plaisance doesn't like barges our size<br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cheers!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ettie moored up at Chalon</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Tuesday
11<sup>th</sup> August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">We
got a little lost yesterday on our way to Julia and Richard, but in doing so we
found where a Grand Frais supermarket was in Chalon, so we set off on our bikes
again and went food shopping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
though we were limited to what we could carry on our bikes, we managed to get
quite a bit, including a whole tray of fresh raspberries for 6 euros.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It got very busy at Fragnes with hotel barges<br />this one had problems with a hire boat determined to squeeze through rather than wait</td></tr>
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Rangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-39245690270977761792015-08-06T03:36:00.001-07:002015-08-06T03:36:41.680-07:00Choisey to Abergement La Ronce/Abergement to Auxonne/Seurre<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">8.5km
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set off at 8.30am and we were moored up by 10.20am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a quick look around Abergement, its just
a very small village, with very smart playground and sporting facilities just
near the mooring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We found a boulangerie
for the all important baguette!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A good mooring to stop at to give you a launch pad onto the river Saone<br />It took us about 1 hour 20 mins from here to get onto the river</td></tr>
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la Ronce to Auxonne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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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. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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arrived back to Auxonne on 31<sup>st</sup> 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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did quite a bit of shopping at home to
help us keep cooler onboard Rangali.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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met up with Sally and Charles on Bluegum and their daughter for dinner on the
Friday night and had a great time yet again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We will be sorry to see them disappear off down south.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think if Kev had
caught a fish that big I’d have run a mile…it looked huge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leaving Auxonne, a great port to stay at</td></tr>
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a foggy start to the morning, we Auxonne left at 10.30am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The day ended up being very hot again, with
clear blue skies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The river was quite
busy with boats, we are definitely in the middle of the holiday season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stopped off for an hour at the campsite
pontoon at St Jean for lunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
pontoon was empty when we arrived but soon filled up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a very nice mooring, with what looks
like a nice little restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’d got
lots of fresh food onboard from our recent Grand Frais shopping trip, so we
wont be eating out for a while!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very nice pontoon mooring at the campsite at St Jean</td></tr>
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we went past St Jean de Losne we saw Bluegum moored up but no one onboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There would have been space for us on the
quay but we’d booked a mooring at Seurre so we carried on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bluegum at St Jean, surprisingly there would have been space for us</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Approaching the big commercial lock at Seurre, the first one we've done this year<br />All nice and easy, bollards in the wall, we just used one middle rope as we gently dropped down</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exiting the lock to arrive at Seurre</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">We arrived at Seurre around 3.30pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a very nice quiet spot, off the
river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are staying here for two
nights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very nice mooring, perched on the end of a pontoon<br />mooring with water and electric 23.5 euros a night<br />although they forgot to switch on the electric point for us last night so we used our electric splitter on<br />an electric point being used by a boat moored up near us, so we could use the air conditioning in our bedroom last night</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shade Sail by Kookaburra 3mx2m bought on Amazon when we were at home<br />Idea pinched from Ettie and Tesserae!<br />The shade sail lets air through it but stops 90% of UV rays<br />We were lucky enough to find white straps in the bricolage in Auxonne</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">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.<br />We went to see Wilson Covers who made our back awning when were in UK and they made us some metal tubing<br />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<br />than the beach towels we were using to block the sun.</td></tr>
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Rangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-19891465087005502082015-07-08T09:42:00.000-07:002015-07-08T09:42:22.779-07:00Choisey to Dole back to Choisey<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Tuesday
30<sup>th</sup> June<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Choisey
to Dole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">3km
2 locks 55 mins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">On
Monday evening we cycled into Dole to see what mooring space was available
on the quay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We thought we’d look after
7pm once the locks had finished for the day so no boats would arrive and take
our space before we got there early on Tuesday morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The space on the quay where we had moored
last year was full with barges but a new space had appeared, because a large peniche that
had been permanently moored up was no longer there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we checked out the depth and decided we’d
be fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then went for dinner in a
new restaurant called Le Local, we had a great burger and chips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The food was very good but the service had a
feeling of being disorganised, but the setting is lovely and I am sure they
will get better over time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We booked a table for
Saturday as we have friends coming to see us for the weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Tuesday
morning we were up early and off by 7.45am and we were moored up where we had planned to be by 8.40am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s great when a plan works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arriving in Dole</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Safely moored up....what a great view from our galley window</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dole is such a pretty town</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Le Local restaurant, a new venture in Dole<br />it is in a great position, great food, and service hopefully will improve over time!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">We
stayed in Dole until Monday, and we spent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">7
days</b> roasting in a stupendous heat wave, we’ve never known anything like
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every Thursday during the summer there is a communal BBQ</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Town BBQ - bring your own meat and salad or you can buy it off the stalls <br />selling local produce set up around the park</td></tr>
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had a fabulous weekend with our great friends Marion and Phil and we were
really sad to see them go very early on Sunday morning, the time went far too quickly. (Luckily for them they had booked into a hotel in Dole as they would have been far too hot to stay with us on the
boat, we were cooking!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The fountain looked very inviting to jump into to cool off</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We walked to the river Doubs near the campsite in Dole<br />The weir is a great place to have a swim<br />Phil and I braved it, it was fantastic to cool off</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pictures can't convey how hot the weather was</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marion and Phil went home early Sunday morning, they stopped by at 7am to drop off 12 bottles of<br />mineral water for us, saved us lugging it back from the supermarket. We've been going through so many bottles (of water!).<br />It was great that I was up early to see Phil and Marion because I saw lots of balloons take off just near the quay.<br /><br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early morning take off</td></tr>
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Sunday, late afternoon/early evening, a large 1927 23m Luxemotor barge called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nomadisch</b> arrived into Dole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no space for them to moor up on the quay, so we said they could moor alongside us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The capitaine and his female crew of two, did
an excellent good job of mooring up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then
had people arriving at the quay to come onboard <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nomadisch</b>; a young couple and a little boy of about 3 yrs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he was so young, we let them walk through
our wheelhouse to be able to clamber more safely onboard <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nomadisch</b>; then two young ladies arrived, one was carrying a racing
bike on her shoulder and they came onboard our boat, still carrying the bike, to get onto <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nomadisch</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Makes our boat look so small<br />Rangali is 18m - Nomadisch is 23m</td></tr>
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in the evening the young family and the original female crew of two, left to go
home and we ended up chatting to the young Capitaine Jean Luc and the two girls
who had arrived in the afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
found out that the old barge was a new venture for Jean Luc and that he had picked the
barge up from Beziers on the canal du Midi, and had been travelling up the Rhone and
Saône since 15<sup>th</sup> June with a variety of crew and that he was on his
way to Besançon where he was going to do up the barge up as a live aboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today we had just witnessed a changeover of
crew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two girls who arrived with
him this afternoon, had only been on the barge for two days, never having been on a barge
before in their lives!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We joked that if
we’d known Jean Luc and his crew were so inexperienced that we wouldn’t have
let them moor alongside us!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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new crew were two Spanish girls and were friends, one now lives in Besançon,
and she knew Jean Luc, the other girl lived in Barcelona and knew him as well as we did!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither had been on a barge before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kev was very impressed that Jean Luc managed
to get so many young women to crew for him. (I think Kev was wondering where he
had gone wrong being stuck with just me!!!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we were chatting to them, we invited them to look at our boat to see what a new
boat was like and one of the girls said that Jean Luc’s barge was ‘disgusting’
and that our boat was better and bigger than even her apartment in
Barcelona!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We ended up having a drink
with them on our back deck and had a very interesting time talking to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The girl with the bike had cycled that day
from Besançon, about 62km (over 3 hours) in the searing heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She said normally the Velo route was very
popular and very busy but because of the heat wave she hardly saw anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t know how she managed as it had been
in the high 30’s/low 40's all day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other
young lady had travelled from Barcelona using a website that organizes car
shares and she amazingly found someone who was leaving Barcelona early that
morning who was travelling to Dole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
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<span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';">We luckily weren’t in a hurry to get going this morning as we had to wait for </span>Nomadisch<span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';"> to depart before we could move.</span><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';">Jean </span>Luc<span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';"> had to do his training session for his new crew before he could safely continue on his journey to Besançon.</span><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light';"> </span><div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kev making sure they don't damage our paintwork.....all was fine</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Au Revoir Nomadisch</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">We
set off at 10am hoping to moor back at Choisey and luckily there was plenty of
space for us and we were really pleased to see Tesserae moored up on the
pontoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tesserae is another Piper 60’ barge
built the same year as Rangali.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a
cup of tea with Louise and David and caught up on our news and they kindly invited us back
for drinks at 6pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So lovely to see Tesserae and also great to have lots of space to moor up</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Later
that day Détente, a steel cruiser arrived with Frank and Gill who we’d met at
Migennes in April. Louise and David also knew them so we all met up at 6pm onboard
Tesserae and we had a really lovely evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Tuesday
7<sup>th</sup> July<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Choisey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">We
think today had been the most unbearable day, heat and humidity wise, our
bodies were just sprouting water, we just couldn’t cool down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a short, very heavy downpour, late afternoon due to
a thundercloud going over us but the air afterwards was still very humid and then the sun
came out again, so it didn't cool us down at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">We
had everyone over to ours for pre-dinner drinks and we had a great evening…..I
am not sure if we were a bad influence but we had everyone over for 6/6.30pm
and we were still all drinking at11.30pm!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>6 bottles of Cremant/wine and one 1.5l wine box later!!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dinner seemed to have been forgotten!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Wednesday
8<sup>th</sup> July<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Choisey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">The
heat wave is over……hurray!!!! We got dressed in our normal shorts and t-shirt
when we got up this morning to realise we were actually feeling COLD!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is what we had fantasized about all
week, suddenly you feel you can function properly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not really cold but its down to around
22-24 degrees C which is over 10-15 degrees cooler than it has been for 8/9
days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tesserae and Détente moved on
today to Dole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tesserae may go on
further depending if they find a suitable mooring in Dole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decided to stay at Choisey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We walked up to the Grand Frais supermarket
to buy bread and fresh salad and fruit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We’ve decided that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Grand Frais</b>
is our favourite supermarket, their selection of fruit and veg is amazing.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hopefully we will see Tesserae later in the summer before they go down to the South of France</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Détente tucked in at the end</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were so glad we saw Frank and Gill again this year</td></tr>
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Rangalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538598204209560537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183097852473157195.post-15956282221119969702015-06-28T12:51:00.001-07:002015-07-08T08:37:51.258-07:00Gray to Pontailler/Pontailler to Auxonne/Auxonne to Choisey<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Monday
22<sup>nd</sup> June<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Gray
to Pontailler-sur-Soane<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">32.5km
2 locks 3.5hrs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">On
Sunday evening we looked at where we would go next, knowing that we have to be
back in Auxonne mid July.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decided
that we would save the rest of the Saône and the Canal Des Vosges for another
year when we can do a circular route to include the Canal entre Champagne et
Bourgogne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">We
thought that Dole would be a lovely town to revisit as we have friends coming
to see us the first weekend in July, and its such a pretty town with lots of
restaurants to choose from.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">So
we left Gray at 8.30am and arrived in Pontailler at 12 noon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We thought we’d go for lunch in the nice
looking restaurant with outside seating, but it was closed on Mondays, so we
went to La Taverna instead and we had some very tasty Italian food.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">It
was quite windy in the afternoon and evening, and the nearby trees decided to
set loose their seeds and our boat was absolutely covered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We swept some of it up in the evening, but the next morning it was even worse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These leaves and seeds took days to get rid of</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Wednesday
24<sup>th</sup> June<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Pontailler
to Auxonne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">18km
1 lock 2 hours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leaving Pontailler....the offending trees were quite a way from the mooring but they still got us!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">We
left Pontailler at 8.30am to arrive in Auxonne at 10.30am. We moored up on the public pontoons,
as there was loads of space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s 10
euros a day if you have water and electric, otherwise it is free to moor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to go to the tourist office to pay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lovely sight, lots of space available on the public pontoons</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Wednesday
to Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Friday Market<br />
We are addicted to these cooked chickens!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They are delicious!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hurray! Bluegum arrives....we hope they aren't disappointed that we are still here!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Expertly moored by Charles and Sally, especially as they currently no bow thruster available to use</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">We
decided to stay in Auxonne until Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sally and Charles on Bluegum arrived on Friday afternoon and they
managed to moor up on the same pontoon as us, which was great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They kindly invited us for a very tasty BBQ
in the evening and we had a super evening with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> O</span>nce they have had their bow thruster repaired at the beginning of July they are planning to go down south, which is a shame,</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";"> as it could be a
while before we see them again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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28<sup>th</sup> June<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Auxonne
to Choisey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">Canal
du Rhône au Rhin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">29km
7 locks 5.5 hours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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set off from Auxonne at 8.30am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
arrived at the lock that takes us onto the Canal du Rhône au Rhin at 10.15am. Once
we’d come up in the lock, we were given our handheld lock zapper, which
operates the locks, saving the need for a lock keeper, although the lock 74 did
have an eclusier to help with the ropes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was an easy trip to Choisey, and a beautiful sunny day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s lovely to be back on a canal again, I
like it better as it’s more picturesque than the river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The river Saône is easier, as there are fewer
locks, and its wide and deep so easier to keep the boat going in a straight
line. On the canal you have to adjust the steering all the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">When
we arrived at our planned stop at Choisey, it looked full but we managed to
squeeze ourselves onto the end of the pontoon at Choisey; half the boat is
hanging off the end!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hope people will
move off tomorrow so we can tie up properly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We love the mooring here, as its so peaceful,
just birds singing their hearts out, frogs croaking, and at the moment there is
someone in the nearby village playing his oboe and the church clock has just
chimed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Light";">We
will stay here tomorrow and then go into Dole on Tuesday. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We leave the river Saöne and are back onto a canal again<br />
Canal du Rhône au Rhin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was very hot today, so the front window is down to get some airflow</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As we arrived at Choisey, we thought the mooring was full, but there was just enough space</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Most of the boat is off the pontoon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few hire boats went by at some speed and we didn't move around too much<br />
We'll get more of the boat onto the pontoon tomorrow</td></tr>
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