A long hot
day to get over the top and down into Alsace. In all it has been about 185 kms and
72 locks to get up the hill – done in under a week on the water. Now its
downhill all the way to Koblenz. The
first 15 locks only took two and a half hours, which was a relief. When we were
here last, it was a question of two hunky young men on scooters dashing from
lock to lock and winding gates and sluices by hand: now it’s pretty girls on
bicycles pressing buttons.
Here’s a
picture of a canal bridge, just outside Montbeliard.
Here’s one
of Nick chatting to one of the pretty girl students doing summer jobs as éclusières.
And here’s
a sight of the lock staircase, as best we could manage.
We are now
settled in the port at Dannemarie, enjoying a refreshing beer, and should make it to Mulhouse tomorrow – another long
and not very interesting day as I recall. Then it’s onto the Rhine on Sunday.
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