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43 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

On the Lateral Loire canal near Sancerre and one of our favourite cafes in France. Great lunch if you can get a seat also good place for wine.

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I'm sure we dined there last year! Bridge just off-picture to the left? I seem to remember it had some kind of eccentric decor inside but I can't recall the details.

There is a hotel boat mooring nearby; while we were there, the boat turned up and there was quite a kerfuffle as some hire boats (luckily not ours) had moored in its space. Views were exchanged, which the tour manager from the hotel boat won as she had the biggest gob.

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2 hours ago, Athy said:

I'm sure we dined there last year! Bridge just off-picture to the left? I seem to remember it had some kind of eccentric decor inside but I can't recall the details.

There is a hotel boat mooring nearby; while we were there, the boat turned up and there was quite a kerfuffle as some hire boats (luckily not ours) had moored in its space. Views were exchanged, which the tour manager from the hotel boat won as she had the biggest gob.

Yes that’s the place . Small mooring with power and cafe has the key to the supply box. It’s a pity the regular hotel boat doesn’t have a notice with its arrival days which would save a lot of agro. Alternatively the vnf could put some posts along the bank adequate for the hire boats but that’s unlikely.

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On the R Seine south of Paris. All the boats loaded with sand for Paris and sharing Evry lock with them. Even with all this sand they imported special sand from Canada for the Paris beach that year.

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32 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

Yes that’s the place . Small mooring with power and cafe has the key to the supply box. It’s a pity the regular hotel boat doesn’t have a notice with its arrival days which would save a lot of agro. Alternatively the vnf could put some posts along the bank adequate for the hire boats but that’s unlikely.

Well there was an A4-size printed timetable - it wasn't exactly stuck upside down in a dark corner, but it wasn't prominent either.  What's more, it was the previous year's! From memory, there was room for us along the mooring strip going one way; returning, we tied up round a tree between the moorings and the bridge.

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30 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

Today 2020

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Lymm Bridgewater C

Were you in lymm today? So were we on Kelpie. Stopped for a quick shop. We moored just on front of the wide beam

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6 minutes ago, haggis said:

Were you in lymm today? So were we on Kelpie. Stopped for a quick shop

Lymm today about 4pm. Shame to have missed you. We were wondering how busy Bridgewater would be, on the way home from a first car-visit to Small Child for the last 16 weeks; we have taken to a daily Zoom to keep in touch.

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On this day in 2001

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Kidderminster S+W

 

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And after many decades of good service, in 2017 after it had been realised that those elegant-and-functional simple railings were Just Not High Enough

 

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25 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

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Kidderminster S+W

And after many decades of good service, in 2017 after it had been realised that those elegant-and-functional simple railings were Just Not High Enough

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... and after years of temporary scaffolding "in the interests of Health & Safety", the new railings were no doubt a relief to local users.

 

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1 hour ago, PeterScott said:

  In August 2012 L1895_20120805_0189s.jpg.a574acdc0a99c474746ac7378e6355e9.jpg

 

... and after years of temporary scaffolding "in the interests of Health & Safety", the new railings were no doubt a relief to local users.

 

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Whilst it is much wider than the bridge in the basin that gave rise to this change, and the cyclist has dismounted, it is worth recalling (if only to remember a young person's life lost and a family devastated) that these bridges are dangerous if misused.

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50 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 1971

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Coventry Basin

It was pretty cheerless when we visited in 2013 but nothing like this, obviously a lot further back in the recovery from WW2 bombings.

Love the cars though. 

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