Days 97, 98 and 99 Montmerle-sur-Saone
Wednesday 7th – Friday 9 August Well a space on the pontoon across the other side of the river appeared about 9 o'clock so we leapt into action as well as you can this early and secured the space. It's…
Day 96 Thoissey to Montmerle
Tuesday 6th August Today after the boulangerie run, we experienced the penultimate Saone lock, being asked to enter the lock after a 135m long barge. Fortunately with 185m long locks there was plenty of space for us. Another short run…
Day 95 Crêches-sur-Saône to Thoissey
Monday 5th August Only 10km to a quiet stop just up a disused canal off the river, except it wasn't very quiet with a jamming jazz/brass band playing at what looked like a private party at a nearby restaurant. Also…
Day 94 Macon to Crêches-sur-Saône
Sunday 4th August Brilliant news that Fern and Sean are going to visit in Lyon in 8 days time, so we can take the 73km to Lyon at a very leasurely pace. 10km South of Macon we tie up at…
Day 93 St Oyan to Macon
Saturday 3rd August Another short run, going past the marina on the outskirts of Macon, we took a gamble on getting on one of the 2 free town pontoons, success!, with the larger, closer to the action and probably noisier…
Day 92 Chalon-sur-Saone to St Oyan
Friday 2nd August Back travelling downstream today, and aiming for the town of Taunus. However, when we got there, the pontoon was full and the only option would have been to raft up against someone. So we decided for something…
Day 89, 90 and 91 Chalon-sur-Saone
Tuesday 30th July to Thursday 1st August Chalon-sur-Saone is like most towns we've called at, very old, very pretty, with narrow streets and an imposing church. But with the largest Carrefour 5 mins walk away from the boat in the…
Day 88 Verdun-sur-le-Doubs to Chalon-sur-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…
Day 87 Seurre to Verdun-sur-le-Doubs
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….
Day 86 Auxonne to Seurre
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….