Nancy to Epinal

Late afternoon cruising, Puttering along at 6km – a great way to unwind after a day with 15 locks.

We hired a car for the day with Katie and Peter to visit some of the WW1 sites around Verdun, the area of some of the worst fighting of the war. The museums and battle sites were very moving but it seems we have learnt very little.. All credit to the French in that the descriptions in all the places were impassionate and non judgemental with regard to the Germans. One museum we actually visited with a group of German soldiers.
In an attempt to enter into the spirit of France we hired a Citroen C1, only to find out it was a Toyota Yaris re-badged. Bummer!!!

Some wild flowers picked along the way.

Buying fuel for the bateau. Actual canal fuelling stations are pretty rare but though the boating grapevine you soon learn where the most convenient service stations are. This one is in Nancy right beside the canal and comes complete with trolleys. A slow way to load 200 lts.

Can you pick where reality stops and painting starts. A house in the town of Toul.

Lynda catching up on some housework, or should it be boatwork. Funny, but work doesn,t seem such the chore on the boat.





We sailed in company with this beautiful little Dutch sailing barge for a couple of days. The two guys onboard where good company and were going down to the Med to sail around Italy. This photo was on a the Moselle River and was several hundred meters wide.

Not all is picture book pretty. A large commercial scrap metal yard at the top of the Moselle.

A private junk yard on a boat

Approaching a lock on the Canal D’Est Sud. This run south from the top of the Moselle River. A completely different scale and pace the Moselle.

A pleasant overnight mooring in a forest.

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