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And a few days at Ancien Resto
... the telephone line there so I get internet from a relay transmitter located in the church clock tower. I have a receiver (a bit like a wifi receiver) which I then put into my wifi router.
After 5 phone calls and over an hour on the phone (my french technical vocab was stressed) I eventually solved the problem.... LEAVES !!!
Yes... Leaves on the trees were interfering with the signal from the clock-tower. This explained why ...
Fog then Sun
A very foggy start to the day saw DM and the Qs both head into town for pastries and bread. We were very near the next lock so we decided to get through it before having breakfast. Again all hands to the deck, another boat had moored overnight at the jetty where you pull in to get off the boat, so we pulled in alongside them and JW and DM jumped across their boat. The rest of us held the boat there until the lock gates where open. Successfully through the lock we had breakfast on ...
Enter the Meaghers
Up early and in the car to Tournus where there is a market and where we are picking up the Meahgers off the train from Paris. We picked up what supplies we could from the market, guzzled down some croissants and the like and headed to the station. The Meagher's were in good form, except for the fact that they had been robbed on the TGV from Gare de Lyon to Lyon. Sue lost her ipad and other important documents but fortunately not their passports.
We were in a bit ...
Beautiful Burgundy, The wine, the place the food
... that was not enough then he produced a bottle of Calvados with a narrow neck and an apple inside. Of course the scientists in us immediately wanted to know how the apple got in the bottle, we were envisaging a Julius Sumner-Miller “Why is it so" moment. Apparently, much to our disbelief, they put the bottles around the flower on the tree and the apple develops inside the bottle.
After lunch we visited a few other small towns and wandered ...
A late summer's day
... a chequered history having been occupied by Louis XVI's cousin in exile after her opposition to him during the revolution and, by the Germans during WW2. The market was on in town when we got there so we picked up few things for lunch from there, and also from the boulangerie (bakery) for a picnic by the lake out of town. Roger fancied a walk around the lake, since we couldn't find a forest to walk in. It was few k's more ...
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