Lizzy earning her keep operating one of the lock gates. They can weigh several tons and you can burn up several bagettes getting them started. Anyone joining us and who thinks it will be a free ride had better think again, still the harder you work the more you can eat and drink and still lose weight.
The canals are quite full early in the season and the water coming over the back gate can cause quite a bit of turbulance. Still it makes the day interesting.
One of the many old stone bridges that have been in place for several hundred years. The town path is one the right and the corners of the bridge have countless deep grooves from the tow cables use to haul the old barges.
Lizzy earning her keep again. An early morning approach to one of the prettier lock keepers houses on the Nivernaise.
Not a bad front door to come home to at night.
All along the canal the VNF (the canal authority) place information boards for both boaties and bike riders. They give info about things up and down the canal and in the hinterland around the canal.
Information boards of a diferent type. A bottle of table red and on of our favoritr whites - a pinot gris from Alsace. Both bottles cost around $4.00
Lynda and Lizzy playing tourist in Decise a small city at the end of the Nivernaise canal.The building in the background is one of the old city gates from around 1000 years ago. It proved to be a great echo chamber to rev a motorbike engine out; no doubt the original builders had this in mind.
The weekly market in the tozwn square in Decise. It was quite a small one but still had lots of tempting local goodies. A local cafe was a great place for a coffee and to watch the locals (and some Australian cyclists riding along the Loire)
The port at decise ant the end of the Nivernaise. Weare rafted up beside a barge belonging to an English couple we met last year; Unfortunely Brian and Paty were back in UK as Paty made a mean fruit cake and we were promised some more next time we met.
An old converted Dutch barge owned by some English boaties. Like many of the old barges it is covered with flowers. Anyone for tea.
Lizzy earning her keep operating one of the lock gates. They can weigh several tons and you can burn up several bagettes getting them started. Anyone joining us and who thinks it will be a free ride had better think again, still the harder you work the more you can eat and drink and still lose weight.
The canals are quite full early in the season and the water coming over the back gate can cause quite a bit of turbulance. Still it makes the day interesting.
One of the many old stone bridges that have been in place for several hundred years. The town path is one the right and the corners of the bridge have countless deep grooves from the tow cables use to haul the old barges.
Lizzy earning her keep again. An early morning approach to one of the prettier lock keepers houses on the Nivernaise.
Not a bad front door to come home to at night.
All along the canal the VNF (the canal authority) place information boards for both boaties and bike riders. They give info about things up and down the canal and in the hinterland around the canal.
Information boards of a diferent type. A bottle of table red and on of our favoritr whites - a pinot gris from Alsace. Both bottles cost around $4.00
Lynda and Lizzy playing tourist in Decise a small city at the end of the Nivernaise canal.The building in the background is one of the old city gates from around 1000 years ago. It proved to be a great echo chamber to rev a motorbike engine out; no doubt the original builders had this in mind.
The weekly market in the tozwn square in Decise. It was quite a small one but still had lots of tempting local goodies. A local cafe was a great place for a coffee and to watch the locals (and some Australian cyclists riding along the Loire)
The port at decise ant the end of the Nivernaise. Weare rafted up beside a barge belonging to an English couple we met last year; Unfortunely Brian and Paty were back in UK as Paty made a mean fruit cake and we were promised some more next time we met.
An old converted Dutch barge owned by some English boaties. Like many of the old barges it is covered with flowers. Anyone for tea.
2 comments:
mmm.... looks great! Viewing this after a day on the farm .... definitely a ride on coming!!
Hi to you all - have a glass (or 2 or 3) of the "white" for me and Rex would probably enjoy the "red".
Hi Lizzy .. you're really earning your keep.
Talk soon - miss you heaps!
love Julie & Rex
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