Tuesday
9th August
Dijon
to Velars-sur-Ouche
9
locks 10km 4 hours
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| Velars-sur-Ouche the mooring is just before ecluse 45 right next to a supermarket and 2 boulangeries - one was closed for their annual holidays the other was closed Weds morning, so no croissants for breakfast! |
The
canal follows the valley of the river Ouche.
It’s a very pretty canal, with gentle meanders through a region of France
that is sometimes called Burgundian Switzerland. Velars is a great place to moor because you
are just by a supermarket and a fuel station.
So Kev did a couple of trips with is 2 x 20 litre fuel canisters and
filled Rangali up.
Wednesday
10th August
Velars-sur-Ouche
to Fleury-sur-Ouche
4
locks 5km 1½ hours
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| Mooring at Fleury-sur-Ouche Mornings are starting to get chilly and misty Lots of dew on Rangali's roof which is great for helping to clean it |
We
had a very easy trip to Fleury. We
noticed a very nice restaurant near our mooring, and I looked it up on Trip
Advisor and there were some great comments about it so we thought we might try
and book it……..it was closed due to its annual holidays!
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| this looked a great little restaurant, shame it was closed until Thursday They have a website which mentions their holiday so its worth looking at it if you are planning to moor here in August |
Thursday
11th August
Fleury-sur-Ouche
to Moulin-Banet lock 34
7
locks 12km 2 hours
Another
easy trip, the lock keepers are great on this canal, bombing along on their
mopeds, working really efficiently. We
had been told about a great little bar/restaurant that was here at the lock run
by a swiss couple. We arrived in good
time ust before 12 noon, I was really looking forward to lunch there…….they
were closed! Closed
Tuesdays/Wednsdays/Thursdays, we are not having much luck. It is a lovely mooring though with electric
and water.
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| A lovely mooring |
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| Restaurant at our mooring Closed! Debs was not happy! |
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| We filled up with water, you pay for how much you use, they have a meter we took on just over 500 litres-60 cents a litre |
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| Kev used ALL his lengths of hose, all joined together |
Friday
22nd August
Moulin-Banet
to La Bussière-sur-Ouche
8
locks 9km 2½ hours
We
are enjoying our short days of travel, and we were moored at La Bussiere by 11.30. I had read about a very nice hotel called
Abbaye de la Bussière that has a Michelin starred restaurant, so after our
recent disappointments of restaurants being closed, I rang and booked lunch in
their bistro. We showered and dressed in
smart causal gear and walked the short distance to the hotel. We had an amazing lunch, and excluding wine
and aperitifs the bill was just under 100 euros, which we thought for the
quality of the food, service and stunning surroundings was not bad. The experience was faultless and we will
certainly be going back there, maybe even to stay at the hotel when we come
back in the winter to check on Rangali.
The
moorings at La Bussiere, are situated just after the lock, and they were
perfect, they looked new. We have hardly
seen any boats on the canal, just a few hotel boats and a few cruisers, no hire
boats. The scenery is beautiful.
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| We were the only boat moored here at La Bussiere, just after lock 26 |
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| Sculptures by Paul Day |
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| Perfect setting for our lunch at the Bistro Kev thought he had miraculously started to understand french menus, until he realised they had given us one written in english! |
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| Coffee in comfy chairs |
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| A large version of this sculpture by Paul Day is at St Pancreas Station The sculpture is of himself and his french wife Catherine (they live in Dijon) |
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| Beautiful public rooms |
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| The park land is so peaceful with ponies grazing, a kingfisher flew over the lake, a family of Koiypu feeding on the grass, a perfect idyl, we will return! |
Saturday 23rd August
La Bussière to Pont d’Ouche
6 locks 7km 2 hours
We had the pleasure of the same lady lock keeper looking after us that we had yesterday; she was so friendly and smiley, working with 1 or 2 other student lock keepers. They looked after us really well. The locks are very easy, all around 2.6m deep, with well-spaced bollards and gentle filling.
We arrived at Pont d’Ouche port around 11am, and the lady who looks after the port, Sonia, was there to show us where to moor. The lock keepers told her we were planning to stop there so she knew we were coming. There are floating pontoons for the smaller boats, we are moored along a quay very near to the bistro that Sonia owns. She told us that the port is very popular for winter moorings as it is great value. We had lunch at her bistro, we had pizza which was homemade and excellent. One thing to note is she doesn’t take credit cards, luckily we had enough cash on us.
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| A bit of a grey day today, our mooring at Pont d'Ouche is great, lots of space, we have electric, water if we needed it. Great bistro, with the perfect host Sonia |
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| Sonia who owns the bistro and and port. A very friendly lady, and a great cook! Tel 06.80.02.17.38 port.booking@gmail.com for winter mooring |
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