Lady Mary
Montbard
We have had a few days of mysteries and history. In Tonnerre we visited Fosse Dionne - an amazingly beautiful spring partly converted to a wash-house in times gone by, its source is unknown. We arrived in Tanlay in time to have a guided tour of the chateau, it is...
Tonnerrre
I have worked out the dead fish mystery. We have been seeing a few dead fish in the canals. When they get caught in a lock filling up all the air in the water suffocates them. I certainly wouldn't want to fall in. We saw a little dog that had drowned yesterday, it...
Auxerre
We have had a beautiful four days traveling from Clamecy to Auzerre with our friend Gillian. I have enjoyed having a biking companion and the bike tracks alongside the canal are superb. We saw a sign for a fish farm and made a swift detour hoping for fresh fish for...
Clamecy Still
While Simon was doing emails yesterday I walked over bridge and found a couple of Brocantes (literal translation is 'Junk'). The first one was too clean and expensive and the owner was not keen to let me in, but he had some friendly customers who showed me the...
Clamecy
We arrived in Clamecy this morning and are parked up in a beautiful shady spot in port by the old town. The weather has been much better over the last couple of days although I got caught in a sudden thunder storm on my bike...
Port de Tannay
The pictures are not actually from Tannay. They are way back down the canal, but pretty. No WIFI connection but we are sitting in a little pub in Tannay where Madame has kindly lent us her computer and we are sitting by the window drinks in hand. The...
Baye etc
After all the storms we left Nevers on a sunny morning and were third in a queue of 12 for the first lock. We stopped just before Decize for the supermarche and decided to spend the night there - very peaceful but smelly until Simon and our lovely French neighbour...
Nevers Still
We went out to eat last night to escape the drips. A French family with their little puppy was at the next door table and we were intrigued to watch it being fed frites and mussels, get on the table, pee on the (tiled) floor and lick the waitress's hand. We heard the...
Nevers Again
After a blissfully uneventful couple of cruisey days, with a pretty stop at Fleury, we are back at Nevers to leave Hugo and Paula to the train for Paris. The highlight was a magnificent rustic four course lunch including copious amounts of house wine and cafe noir...
Nevers
You can find our French mobile phone number on the About page. Simon has just spilt beer on me as we are sitting in the port at Nevers. We arrived this afternoon and wandered into a buskers festival in the old square. It is warm and mild and we have come back to Lady...