avec vue sur la terra
We lazed around the boat in the morning and after a lunch of oysters and seafood our cruise got underway. I opted for getting off at the first lock and biking along the canal giving me a different view than staying on the barge. The food has been incredible and I’ll do a full post at the end of the week.
The process of passing through a lock is one of repetition, pull up, sometimes wait for some traffic, the first door opens after the level in the lock falls, pull into the lock, doors close behind, the sluice doors open filling the now occupied lock from the base of the forward doors, once the water is raised the doors open and on you go. Repeated over and over and over. Here is a series of still and video of process.
Sometimes you catch a passenger through the door.
It’s always a tight fit.
Always a lock house.
Love your posts. Deficient in history and geography, I’ve associated European canals with Venice, Amsterdam, and the UK, not France. Domestically, it’s been upstate New York —“I’ve got a mule and her name is Sal, fifteen miles on the Erie Canal…”
Your barge is aptly named for the wonderful voyage.
Are you ok? Going head over heels off a bike EEKS! Too busy looking at the scenery! 😳