Baye to Châtillon-en-Bazois

Tuesday 29^th April

Baye to Châtillon-en-Bazois

14 Locks (all down)

15km

We spent three relaxing days at Baye.  It is a lovely spot, not much there amenity wise but when the weather cleared up we went for a walk around the Étange de Baye about 3 miles.

We ordered bread from the B&B in Baye that acts as a bread depot.  The croissants and pain au chocolates were probably the worst we have ever tasted, stale as anything, we ordered them each day hoping it would improve; they didn’t!  The baguette we ordered for lunch each day was ok though.

This is Étange de Vaux a reservoir just adjacent to Étange de Baye
separated by a wall

This heron was fishing just opposite our mooring at Baye

My hands healed up so all was well when we moved on to Châtillon-en-Bazois.  We had an easy trip; a lot of the locks were either double or triple locks so we got through them quite quickly and very gently as we are now going down towards Decize and the Loire valley.  The rain stayed away just until we arrived at Châtillon-en-Bazois.  We are moored up on a short finger pontoon; most of the boat is hanging off the end!  We have electric and water, the charge is 7 euros a night. 

On our guide it says this is an extra low bridge, from our experience last year,
we don't think it's any lower some of the bridges
we will be going under further down the Nivernais

Yet another friendly lock keeper
He is waiting for the water to empty from the lock
before he could open the gates  

Open sesame

 We went to the local hotel Auberge de l’Hotel de France for dinner Wednesday evening, it was a great meal, so good that we are going back tonight.  It was quite chilly last night, but the restaurant had a fabulous open fire burning so it was very cozy.

  

The cozy, very old restaurant at Auberge de l'Hôtel de France
Not a brilliant quality photo as I took it off the web