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| Not a bad spot to break down! |
The countryside just seems to get better and better - unlike the weather. We have had some brilliant, hot sunny days and some torrential downpours, complete with thunder and lightning. There are a few more boats about now so we've been able to do a bit of socialising as well as exploring the local area.
We had a bit more time to explore than we anticipated due to a breakdown! We were lined up ready to enter a lock when David suddenly called out that there was a problem - something wrong with the accelerator. I explained to the eclusiers who hauled us into the lock with ropes where we were able to tie up and investigate - the accelerator cable had broken! The eclusiers hauled us out of the lock and we moored just below it.
After an initial (very slight) panic, it all turned out fine. In a beautiful spot once again, we were able to get the motorbike off and head for the nearest port to arrange for a new cable to be sent to their address. Good old asap supplies!
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| Semur-en-Auxois |
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| Chateau Bussy-Rabutin |
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| Semur-en-Auxois |
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| Abbaye de Fontenay - UNESCO site |
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| Abbaye de Fontenay |
David says....Really interesting, lazy & unproductive
time, every day, sometimes similar but always
different. Mooring places often very quiet, v.dark at night, most street
lighting off at midnight. Country walks & cycling (all those tow paths,
back doors into quiet villages). Best French inland area for landscape &
wildlife. Landscape a comfortable scale, historic towns, amazing chateaux &
old industrial sites, an Abbey or two.
Farmyards in villages, nightingales sing all night......frogs croak. Lots of
badgers, snakes, lizards, coipu, birds of prey. Fish in weedy canals, very
little other traffic on canal, a boat a day, sometimes a few more.
