Saturday 20th July 0950 We've reached the top. It's downhill to the Med! 

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…

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…

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…

Tue 23rd July Today saw the last of the Canal Entre Champagne et Bourgogne with a final 3 down locks and one as we entered the Saone. At the final canal lock we had to hand in our remote control…

Wednesday 24th July Too hot at 38° to do much today so just went 4 or 5 miles downstream to the medieval walled town of Auxonne, mooring up in a marina with a shower, the first for 11 days! We’ve…

Thursday 25 and Friday 26 July A couple of days of doing nothing other than restocking, because at 38° it was a bit too warm for comfort. On Friday however we did manage to move the boat to the free…

Saturday 27th July After yesterday's temperature of 38°, today was much cooler with threatening dark clouds in the sky, in fact with the very very heavy rain for the first couple of hours down the river, it was very cold….

Sunday 28th July A fairly short run today of about 20 km downstream with one lock (over 180 metres long) to the lovely old town (aren’t they all!) of Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, the confluence of the  river Doubs and the river Saone….

Monday 29th July A 25km run downstream with an earlyish start to the town of Chalon-sur-Saone. Arriving at 1145 we squeezed in to the last available slot in the small and helpful marina, behind a very attractive island. We'll spend…