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Cultural learnings for the betterment of K and C
Woke up this morning after a peaceful nights sleep and had our first breakfast back in France; pastries of course. Shared the breakfast room with an interesting couple from Cornwall in England who are also out spending their kids inheritance (common theme it seems). Our mission was to find a chatuau that had a piscinie (pool) that we could spend a …
Towed through the tunnel.
... of the water. Quite a feat. it was used in the war by the Germans who used it as their near impregnable bunker and operations comand centre. they tied a string of barges together. there are some boats that have painted their names on the walls but i am certain somewhere on a small piece of wall there will be a carveing, Fritz was here Tied up in a dead little town called Vendhuil The charts showed this small cutting on the wrong side of the canal. Navionics has some ...
The promised land is busy
... charts there is no stopping for a looong way so i decided to call it quits for the day. Sitting in the marina i soon realised its a very busy canal. Every 20 mins or so a barge goes past. its a bigger canal so passing them isnt too hard. The locals here said where we plan to go is much busier!!! this could get exciting. this blog used to put the pics in the blog. Sorry but now it posts them by themselves so to see the photos look at previous posts which are just posts wit one ...
New crew aboard and reds onward ho.
... with music. as he should be. rae the new deckie is aboard having managed to find us. She is 21. She has traveled a lot for her years. Backpacked in the usa. She has just signed on to doing something completely different. On a boat in europe. She has only met dee and I only once. a whole new experience of life. very brave. We should all be doing something like that. I cant help but think back to what I was doing at 21. Wow. Feels like ...
Chablis
... co-operative to try their wines. Must say they are all much sharper and drier than ours even tho they C******nay grapes. Then we went along the road to several other wineries and tried theirs , some were better than others interestingly. Great fun tasting tho. Later had dinner at local restaurant, ok food nothing special tho. Tomorrow we off for two nights at Chalon sur Saone in Burgundy and more wine tasting / buying. Weather has been overcast and some ...