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It was a quiet night despite the number of boats all right next to each other. Angela went out early shopping and found the boulangerie – but despite asking people couldn’t find the supermarket. But the purchases from the boulangerie were good! The views around the marina are very lovely. Today we continued south on…
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We got up and had difficulty with the electrics. The toilet would not flush properly and the fridge was off. There was a red light on our dashboard. Since we were not connected to electricity, our battery had gone flat. We then read the manual and apparently the fridge chews up a lot of electricity.…
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It was a cold night but lovely morning. I got a few snaps first thing. Our boat is the Venon – named after a French town. Our route from Corbigny to Chatillon is here: https://www.crisboat.co.uk/our-cruises/corbigny-chatillon-corbigny2/ We set off around 10 after the engineer had tried to remove Oli’s CD from the sound system and failed.…
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We got up to a cool morning – about 8 degrees. I have to put the motorhome heater on first thing when I get up these days. It’s no longer summer! After breakfast we got into the big job of packing for a week on the canal boat – which included things like bikes, food,…
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It was very rainy so we enjoyed a sleep in as there wasn’t much we could do. It was Wednesday and we had to get to near Corbigny to be able to pick up the canal boat on Friday. We enjoyed driving through the Morvan National Park. We came across French and British flags and…
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It was going to be a warm day so we decided to make the most of it and have an outdoors day with a swim. We drove from Dole through the varied countryside. Farmers are always doing something amusing with their hay bales. After around 2 hours we were at l the village of Arnay-le-Duc.…
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It was a little showery so we got ourselves together slowly and left Besancon on our way to Dole in the middle of the Jura area. The road took us through the green fields with the Comte cheese cows along the Doubs River. In a village we found a nice parking spot beside the river…
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It was raining when we got up and was cloudy as we walked to the nearby tram to get into Besancon. It wasn’t long before we were in the centre of the city over the river – we were here last year. We were a bit early but went up the hill to check out…
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We left Titisee after seeing the steam train – again. The road heading west out of the mountains to Freiburg was very interesting with lots of hairpin bends and inconveniently placed rocks. We arrived in Freiburg and parked up on a central street. It was Sunday so all parking was free. Freiburg was established in…
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The weather was very showery at Lake Constance so we decided to move on. We saw many interesting views as we went along the huge Lake Constance. There were lots of fruit trees and grape vines. We then were in the Black Forest – named by the Romans as the trees were so dense and…