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Auxerre – Canal de Bourgogne – Saone to Pont de Vaux, May/June 2014
Monday 26 May We’d had a nice weekend at Auxerre, after coming down from the Nivernais. The weather had been mixed, hot and sunny, heavy showers. The moorings on the capitainerie side are expensive, (22 euros for a boat our … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life
The Weekly Photo Challenge is ‘Street Life’. I’m not keen on photos of crowds of people, so my offering this week depicts mostly deserted streets in France and Spain. To see other interpretations of the prompt visit the site or … Continue reading
Canal de Bourgogne Revisited (Autumn 2013)
Having abandoned our exploration of the Canal de Bourgogne in heavy rainfall during May/June, we decide to persevere again this autumn… Monday 19th August Arrived at Pont de Vaux around noon, after an uneventful trip. Traffic had been a little … Continue reading
Posted in Cruising in France
Tagged Bligny, Canal de Bourgogne, Chateauneuf, Crugey, Dijon, Escommes, Fleury sur Ouche, Gergy, Gigny, miniature railway, Moulin Banet, MS Niagara, Plombieres les Dijon, Pont d'Ouche, Pont de Vaux, Pouilly, Pouilly tunnel, Saone, Seurre, St Jean de Losne, Vandenesse, Velars sur Ouche
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Rain, rain and more rain… Canal de Bourgogne/River Saone, May 2013
The only good thing about being wet is that you can’t get any wetter… and you will, in the course of time, get dry. The bad thing is that this year in France, once you’ve got dry… you just start … Continue reading