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Sunday, September 9, 2012

Bye Briare and back to Burgundy

Somewhere on the Canal Lateral a la Loire.

Summer is over! You may not think so as today was hot with a warm breeze where little white dogs sought shade and we stopped early under some shady trees on a quiet bend in the canal, but come 9pm (21:00 French Time) and the chill is definitely in the air.  This makes for good sleeping and cool, clear mornings and the sad thought of the impending end of the season.  If only we could squeeze a  few more months out of this time.

 

Having made good time along these canals we sat in the lovely port of Briare on the Loire for an extravagant six days and enjoyed every minute. The town of Briare has nothing in particular of note except for the lovely 600m bridge that carries the canal over the Loire (designed with help from Monsieur Eiffel) and a disproportionally good market but the port is well set up and surrounded by flowers and just a nice place to be.  We connected with Greg and Cecilia from Sydney and Tony and Lorraine from the Gold Coast and had a movable feast around the boats.  Then our friends and neighbours Randy and Judy arrived on their way to Paris and the weather was perfect the whole time.

Today we set off over the long bridge on the lateral canal that parallels the Loire where we left the Loiret region and returned to our old hangout – Burgundy. This is open river valley with long straight stretches and only a few places of interest so we hope to make some more good time in the next week.

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