BOATING STRASBOURG TO NANCY

Last Monday after paying a not too horrendous bill at the boat yard, we finally headed off up the canal to Nancy 150km away, a good week’s trip on the canals. Along the way we passed though about 40 locks, two tunnels, one 2.5 km long and went up an inclinater or lift of 44 meters. This is a device where you drive the boat into a large swimming pool like thingy , then get pulled up the side of a hill and finally drive out into the canal at the top. It replaces a staircase of about 15 locks in a row.

It has been good travelling with Katie and Peter, they have both adapted to shipboard life very quickly, Peter proving to be very adept on the wheel going in and out of the locks without leaving any of Deerste behind on the walls. They both agree that another week on the boat at the end of their travels would be ideal as they have a very intense itinerary over the next four weeks. They leave for Paris on Wednesday. We will head south over the next couple of weeks but not the way we originally intended. In typical French fashion some locks are out of action and will remain that way until????? But that’s boating. Now in Nancy for a few days where K & P will leave us to travel to Paris, Italy and Turkey before returning home. We are hiring a car to go to Verdun and Metz tomorrow, both of which we have seen before, but areas which may interest K & P.They have been exploring on the bikes today but compared to Strasbourg it comes a very poor 2nd as a city destination.


Docked at a small village for the night having dinner in the park: