Sorry I haven’t posted for awhile. We’ve been battling a weedy canal (i.e. repeated prop foul), recalcitrant locks and, for several exciting days, a boat that would not go in reverse (reverse being a handy feature when piloting your 34-foot vessel into a concrete space 15 feet wide and 100 feet long). Cheers!
Besides a lot of cranky locks we also got to transit a 5 Km long tunnel. At our speed it takes about 50 minutes to complete. Fortunately traffic is quite light on this canal so we did not have to wait. The tunnel passes completely under the village of Balesmes-sur-Marne.
We stopped our northern sojourn at Langres where we spent two days exploring. The woman at the Captainerie was surprised when we said we were from the US. In all her time there we are only the second US boat to visit.
And while the weeds were pretty bad, we had some nature moorings with lovely views.
Our Adventures 