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Towed through the tunnel.
... meat. left early and enjoyed an empty canal all day. We arrived at the second tunnel at 1130 ready to get a few more miles under the belt but we had to wait till 3:30 to get towed throughh the tunne by the electric tugl. So lunch and a nap was in order. The tunnel is very long around 7 km and was built around 1780 when Australia hadnt even buit a brick dunny yet. It was completed by Napoleon. It was amazing to look at the hand hewn stone that was 3 m deep and 5 m ...
Big empty canal, and the deckie rocked chauny
... planned and racked up quite a lot of locks with very little traffic. We had one barge ahead of us which meant we had to wait at each lock for him to go through then the lock to empty for us. Eventualy i heard something on the radio. i didnt understand it so i just gave my postition and direction. Turns out it was him offering to pull over. I found this out later when he waved me through. nice of him. we clocked up some nice km today. The ...
The promised land is busy
... it was maybe not too bad so tried the canal water again. Here is a tip folks. Anything alloy below zero will freeze water. Even if it is only a little below freezing. i am a slow learner. i poured salt over the deck and we got going after 9:30. We whizzed through the locks and only met a couple of barges. It went very well. At around 2:30 we entered the new canal which is much bigger. Chauny city is only a few km from the turnoff. The marina loomed in front and looking ...
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 ...
Remember the Somme and Danny Styles
... as Olivier narrated the details of the noise and confusion and overwhelming artillery fire, why the bodies of so many soldiers, like Danny's, had never been recovered.
Olivier had done his homework and he was able to help us pick out the name of D R (Daniel Riley) Styles amongst the list of the 11 000 missing soldiers. It was a great day and a fulfilling way to finish our wanderings through France.
We had one last day in St Quentin and we set out from the hotel ...
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