La Briqueterie
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New crew aboard and reds onward ho.
... helped them tie up while I got thelock started. We passed through a few locks and into another canal ( i hope we are going the right way). The stink boat kept going the other way towards Paris. Then we got stuck behind some commercial traffic. they travel at about half what we do bit getting past them is pretty hard. Just randomly we went through another tunnel. 2.5 km long. two locks were out of order so we had to wait while the ...
Klaus lives. and he had better behave himself.
... Klaus. We did however have the light on with the heater and when the lock keeper tried to open his gates for a boat we overloaded the system and cut his power...oops
It was no problem he said. They also leant me a bottle of locktite to stop the bolts coming undone by themselves. I couldnt buy any around here so it was greatly apreciated. I am dropping a bottle of wine around shortly to say thanks.
So the saga continues tomorow.
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Stevie got an owee
... canals have been very helpfull. They have us plugged in to their control box so we have heat and very importantly, hot water. The lack of showers has been the elephant in the room that neither wanted to mention. The new part will arrive thursday morning so we have a lay day in this very pretty city. i dropped the coupling off to be repaired and we are doing laundry. All exciting stuff I know. But its ...
Klaus broke in a big way.
... throu dee in edinburgh. After a very long day we tied up in Chalon sur champagne. We are tied up right outside the lock house so we can plug in. The lock guys knew were coming as i had called the canal authourity. So he organised everything including phoning a mechanic who is calling back in the morning. it may be possible to repair it rather than wait for a replacement. We shall see. Thats boats. A big shiny motor can fail as much as a ****** old ...
Champagne Showers
... Our tour ended with a free glass of champagne.
Our next stop was a small grower/champagne producer in the Cote D’Blanc (so named because mostly white grapes are planted here). This house is up on a hillside overlooking the vineyards and a couple cute villiages off in the distance. It was unbelievably picturesque. We went into a large room with a giant press. The room is lit at night by champagne bottles with candles in ...
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