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On this day in 2005

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On 07/08/2021 at 23:20, John Liley said:

This is all that was left of the Renault car factory on an island downstream of Paris the last time we passed. Vehicles made here were transported to/from other plants on enormous double-decker barges, but no longer. The cars are being made elsewhere now. and the island will become a "cultural hub", hopefully a good one, whatever that may be.

 

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I saw a Renault 4 driving around near Buxton last Saturday.

 

First one I had seen for years.

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This day 2014 - the canal formerly known as the Marne à la Saône, recently renamed the Champagne - Burgundy canal to encourage tourism, but known universally to boatmen as the Heuilly canal as that is where it joins the Saône. Lock-keepers often offer garden produce, but this one had jars of truffles from the local forest. A major difference between UK and France is the majority of locks are automated and you work from the boat to the bank - you don’t want to climb up and down slippery lock ladders and rope handling skills are useful. You need a decent line and an eye large enough to go onto all the various bollards you encounter.

 

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Keep out of the way if you meet one of these -  whoever is steering may not be able to see you. The Dutch-built Eiger-Nordwand (Eiger North Wall) is propelled by Liquified Natural Gas, an ongoing trend on the Rhine and associated waterways. Somewhere under those containers is a storage tank for the LNG, presuably a large one, since filling stations are presently few and far between.

 

 

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This afternoon 2021

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and below the bridge

 

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and above the lock

 

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At the first bridge above Ickles lock, we spent the night in the Sheffield Flood in 2007 and later a month at the lock landing. For the unfolding story of the flood, see #2053 #2059 #2067 #2069 #2073 #2076 #2078 #2080 #2082 #2084 #2086 #2128 #2183 #2268 #2422 #2588  #2674 (all 2007)

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This afternoon 2021

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The lock is cut off from the outside world by fencing - all part of a large construction project including more flood defences.

Because of the fencing the lock can only be accessed from the lock ladders in the lock off the boat, as no route through the fencing around the lock, from what I hear from the boats passing through today.

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Today 2006 on the R.Meuse in France. Nice shot of us by,cruiser we were traveling with. Plenty of smoke from the GM engine and this would be its last year in the barge before being changed for a Perkins. Can’t say I was sad to see it go but I was when the bill came in.

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