Day: 22 July 2019

Monday 22nd July With virtually no stopping places, we decided to break the back of the remainder of the Canal Entre Champagne et Bourgogne with an earlyish start, so managed 17 locks over a distance of 34 km, with just…

Sunday 21st July Going down in the locks is much easier than going up, no reaching up with a rope on the end of a boat hook to a just reachable bollard, then holding the boat against the, in some…

Saturday 20th July This is it, the day we went over the top! 2 locks up took us to 340m (1100 feet) above sea level to the watershed between the Marne and Saone rivers and the 4.8km Ballesmes Tunnel. So…