Residence Les Hauts de Valmeinier
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Klaus lives. and he had better behave himself.
... Reims where craig gets off. Rae is bringing her Ukelaly so I will be trading Craigs didge for a Uke. I should really learn an instrument. I used to play the guitar but somehow lost the time to practice. I doubt I will make time now either so maybe the stereo will suffice.
The guys here from the canal authourity have been great. plugging us into power has saved us freezing our bums off and also allowed me to used the big light to ...
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 ...
Verdun
Having had a good introduction to the Champagne region, we made our way to the famous WWI battlefields of Verdun. We made a pit stop at the local supermarket (or intermarché) to pick sup some groceries for the next couple of days! We had to take a picture of our haul because we felt it was such a good bargain for the amount and variety of food products we got! We've really been enjoying all the fresh and seasonal fruit here – from nectarines and peaches to ...
Back to WWI
... of Verdun started in February 1916 and in the first 10 hours, the Germans shot 2 million shells at the French lines. The battle raged on for another 300 days.
I stopped at Douaumont Fort where the camera battery decided to die. It was a fair way back to town so I continued on to the Ossuary. It was commissioned after the war to house the bones of the 130,000 unknown soldiers left on the battlefields. It was very impressive but one half ...