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| Chevroches on the Canal du Nivernais | | | |
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Chevroches is a pretty village of stone houses, dry stone walls, stone wells, stone seats, stone steps..... yes there was once a stone quarry here. The stones were transported along the canal and where we are moored used to be the port. There are no shops unfortunately, not even a boulangerie but the countryside is beautiful. This is as far along the Nivernais that we can go with confidence as it has become pretty shallow and whilst we are keen to give this lovely canal a go in the future we don't have enough time left this year to factor in getting stuck or worse, doing any damage.The canal is much used by hire boats which have a much shallower draft than us and, as I have previously mentioned, often go at speed (they understandably want to see as much as possible in their week's expensive holiday). At the risk of sounding like a boring boatie speed is not good in shallow water; it causes wash which damages fragile banks and it causes us to run aground which is not good for my fragile temper (or for those around me). So this is as far as we can go before retracing our steps a bit to Migennes where we will leave our boat for the winter.
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| A beutifully kept lock on the Canal du Nivernais |
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| Roches de Basse Ville, Canal du Nivernais |
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It's not all sunshine you know! Rob did the gallant bit and let me have the one emergency poncho.
Next day - blue skies again....
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| Mooring at Chevroches |
that picture of you looks much like the way i've been looking ... for the last two weeks. who said alice was sunny...
ReplyDeleteYou're home!!!!!! Thank goodness.
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