Hotel Chateau d'Aubry
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... 39;lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">So I'm leaving France with 2000 Euros for 6 months ( Yep that hurts )
Flying to Thailand the 6th December Spending NYE there ( No surprise it's my 3rd year in Koh Phangan ).
Straight after NYE I'll make my way up ...
Our first threesome
Its too easy really. The canals are huge. Plenty of depth and most of the barge drivers are very helpful. I did get called up to the office about my expired vignette. But typicaly french, he filled out some paperwork and said as i had engine trouble there would be no charge. Got back to red in time to cast off while shouveling down some lunch. We tied into the lock with two other boats. Our first threesome. it ...
Close enough to belgium to smell chocolate
... The current had me pinned. nice of him. We followed that barge through the next few locks before trying to find a place to stop. We rafted to a little boat in what is supposed to be a stopping point but as he was tied to some rotten old timber piles i didnt fancy it for overnight. So we trundled back into the traffic. Lots of traffic but as the canal is huge I no longer get the instant of terror when i see a barge coming. The river is also running in our favour for the first ...
So close ...Just have to talk klaus into it.
we made it to Cambrai. Its only 25 or so km but about 10 locks and we played barge dodgems a lot. the barge drivers were all very helpfull and even called ahead to the other barges to let them know we had bilge keels and where we were. Helpfull. Klaus decided to have a rest after we picked up water in the lock. Rae towed and i fended till we got outside the lock and i ...
Back in France
... sub from subway down the road, we walked into the city. From our experience I can tell you to not bother dropping into Lille. We only chose it because we had a few days to fill in before taking the car back. The "rambler" as mum calls the Main Street in every town was nice but that was just it, nothing special. Tried to fill in our afternoon by walking through the streets but being a Sunday nothing was really open and there seemed to be more estranged people ...
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