Le Pot d'Etain
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So close ...Just have to talk klaus into it.
... smaller boats. No room but rafted up alongside we are fine. And there is power. The best part of cambrai is that were only a city away from the belgium border. Tomorow we hope to be in valenciennes which is a stones throw (comparitivly) from belgium. i will be sad to leave france but it is a huge milestone ticked off. France from one end to the other with bugger all ...
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 Last Few Weeks
Well I have gotten numerous complaints (mostly from my mother) that I haven't updated my blog very recently. So, I will update you all on my last few weeks. After returning from Italy, I still had one week of vacation before returning back to school. One day, my sister, mom, grandmother and I took the train into Lille, one of the biggest cities in the North of France. We went shopping and I prepared myself for the winter ahead: I bought a ...
Big empty canal, and the deckie rocked chauny
... guys on the right telling me to move left. *******. the town here is pretty dead. And tomorow is sunday. So moving on again early was the plan. It is howling this morning. it will blow the milk out of your coffee. i am currently sitting in the cockpit waiting to see if this gale will back off enough to get moving. i dont want to get stuck here in the middle of a fishing competition. The fisherman were serious enough yesterday and that was only ...
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 ...
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Room service
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Free parking
- Pets allowed