Thursday 4th September to Sunday 7thSeptember
Tanlay
We
had a lovely relaxing, long weekend with our friends Rob and Jo. Time was spent visiting Tanlay Chateau,
boules matches with girls against the boys, a car trip in Rob and Jo’s car to
visit to Noyers and Chablis, and lots of eating and drinking took place!
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| The entrance to Tanlay Chateau |
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| Our great friends Rob and Jo |
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| Tanlay Chateau |
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| The grounds of Tanlay Chateau |
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| Arrival of Hotel barge 'Nenuphar', with Kev and Rob assisting! |
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| Picturesque Noyers |
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| Noyers |
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| Noyers We mis read info on Noyers, stating it was the "most" beautiful village in France We questioned that until re read the info and found it actually said it was "one of the most" beautiful in France It was lovely but no more lovely than some of the other places we have seen along our travels |
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| We ended up really liking the mooring at Tanlay and we were sad to leave Free electric and water, restaurant at the port, a great bakers, butcher and mini market and just for Kev - a fabulous Aladdin's cave of a hardware shop |
Tanlay to Tonnerre
6 locks 9km 2½ hrs
We woke up to another glorious sunny day at Tanlay. The hotel barge Nenuphar left Tanlay with a new select group of passengers. We also left at 9am for our first lock of the day.
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| Leaving, a now almost deserted Tanlay |
We
had a wonderful trip to Tonnerre, with really lovely scenery along the way.
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| A good mooring at Tonnerre |
Tonnerre looked a little run down, I managed to take some nice photos of the town but these made it look nicer than it really was!! I think it has money being spent on it so it should improve over time. We had a nice lunch though in a hotel restaurant in the town and we also found a nice boulangerie on the main road D905.
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| Fosse Dionne A wash house in Tonnerre, it is fed by a natural spring |
Tonnerre
to Flogny-la-Chapelle
4
locks 13km 3hrs
We
decided to move on to Flogny as we weren’t too impressed with Tonnerre. We had another fab trip, beautiful scenery
again and a sunny day once the misty clouds burnt off. We arrived at 12 noon and luckily there was
space on the quay. There were signs said
that is was shallow but we had no problems.
We
walked into the small village in the afternoon to find a fabulous butcher, a
very nice small, upmarket supermarket and a boulangerie. All opened after their lunch at 3.30pm.
We
decided to stay another day at Flogny as we quite liked the mooring. There were a few young men hanging around the
playground area in the afternoons, but they went before the evening, and we think there must be a
dog kennels somewhere nearby as we occasionally heard dogs barking and someone
shouting at them to be quiet…….the shouting was more annoying than the barking!
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| There was a really good butchers in the village, we bought some really nice steaks, chicken and pork chops which kept us going for a few days. |
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| Our mooring at Flogny, there were warning signs about depth, we didn't have any problems |
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| Stunning scenery along the way |
Thursday
11th September
Flogny
to St Florentine
7
locks 12km 3¾ hrs
We
were at our first lock for 9am, the other boats moored with us looked like they
weren’t planning on moving so when the lock keeper asked us, where is the other
boat, we had to shrug our shoulders and say there wasn’t one coming as far as
we knew. Just as he had set our lock
into motion, a small boat turned up, he wasn’t happy! So he let us through the lock and then said
we would have to wait for the small boat to join us before we did the next
lock. It was pretty lucky for us that the lock keeper at our last lock of the
day took us through after 12 noon, (which was his lunch break) otherwise we
would have really been annoyed that the small boat had held us up.
The
mooring at St Florentine is big, and we found a space easily. We walked around the town, but it’s undergoing
some road upgrade on the small backstreets, so was all in a bit of a mess. It will be nice once its finished.
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| Lots of space at St Florentine |
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| A beautiful misty morning St Florentine |
4
locks 10km 3hrs
Another
beautiful morning, clear skies, mist rising off the water, and the boat was covered
in a heavy dew.
We
had another great trip, and made Brienon just before 12 noon. We did consider continuing to Migennes but we
found a good mooring, with electric so we thought "why not stop?" so we did! We went for a set lunch at Auberge de la
Poterne for 14 euros for three courses, it was really good and we’d like to go
back there for an evening meal when we come back this way next year. There is a fuel station within walking
distance of our mooring, so Kev did a couple of fuel runs with his trolley, we
are now full again. There is also a nice
new Leclerc Express supermarket just near the mooring, so very handy. We are running our stock cupboard down in preparation to going home next week, so we
didn’t need much.
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| Tiny rings to moor to but they were sufficient |
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