Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Summer definitely arrived in the Jura

Thanks to all who commented on the facebook post – evidently it worked. Not something I’m used to. This seems a bit easier and won’t clutter up anyone’s newsfeed with unwanted stuff.

On specific comments – yes Claudia, we will try to do pix, but we are using a 3G dongle for wifi connection, paying by the amount of data up or downloaded, so it may have to wait until we find a free wifi. I will also try to put up a map today.

Good comments from Roger – we have seen lots of cyclists along the way, and being Tour de France time, many, shall we say more mature, gentlemen are recovering their youth in brightly coloured lycra. Your comments on the Rhine are certainly apposite. We have done the upper part, south of Strasbourg, a couple of times, once with a very strong current: extremely slow upstream, and an adrenaline rush downstream. I think the Rhine gorge could be a bit like that. Certainly when one gets out onto the Rhine, we feel very small – the locks, the barges, the current and everything. Should be fun.


Today was an easy trip up to L’Isle sur le Doubs, to give it its full name, in bright sunshine. One lock played up and we had to wait an hour for a somewhat louche young eclusier to appear and fix it. Nowhere to tie up, so lunch on the move.

Here's the map

And here;s the captain holding a rope:


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