Niderviller - 10th June to 12th June 2023

About the Marina:

• Cost for the berth about 1,80 euros per meter
• Electricity is 5 Euros per day.
• 1 Euro per 100 liters of water (note: there is no meter to say how much you have used)
• Showers - you pay 10 Euros for a card and add credit to the card. Shower cost 30 cents per 1 minute. What you don't use and the 10 Euros for the card you will get back when you return the card.
• Visitors parking is on the outside arm.

Sun set, not sure what my camera was set to.

 

Above and below are photos of the old communal laundry, with very cold fresh water constantly running.

Town Round-about

Church, Martin talking to Stefan.

Was the kiln for the ceramics and glass made here, now close and the halls are use for functions and weddings.

Flowers for one of three wedding receptions today.

Above and below are from the Association fare.

Ecluse no.7 Rechicourt-le-Chateau - 8th June to 9th June

Finally found same Stakes (Piquets) at the last stop at Lagarde Port, one of the ports where they hire boats out, purchased 3 second hand ones for 8 Euros each and purchased two large round fenders to protect the bow in the locks. With the stakes we can now stop at the side of the canals., which we did today.

Had a little visitor fly into our boat.

The reason we needed the large round fenders, We were up the front in Ecluse No 14 de Xures when a charter boat followed us in and needed more space. We changed our line to move forwards to make room which meant our lines where not in the best position, we had one bollard for the 2 lines. Learnt a lesson though, if I'm as far forward as I feel safe, I'm not moving for a charter, they can reverse out and get the next lock.

Lagarde - 6th June to 8th June 2023

 About the marina:

• Water and Electricity free
• Showers 2 Euro for 8 Mins (I'll save my money and shower on the boat)
• The Marina office has some food but not much

About Lagarde:

• No supermarket
• No Bakery - there is a truck that comes Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning to town
• one Restaurant PK 209 meals are reasonably priced, but the service was slow.
• One bar at the Chamdres D'Hote
• One Church
• Noye Joel is not open as a Grocery shop now, it's now a Pizza shop that only opens Saturday.
• German Military Cemetery
• and an egg vending machine

Fresh egg vending machine

Marina from the entry if you are on foot or car.

• Noye Joel Pizza shop, only opens Saturday. Cooks outside and you eat outside.

Einville-au-Jard - 3rd June 23 to 6th June 2023

 Port information:

• Need tokens for Water, electricity and showers each cost 3Euros
• Electricity we were told will last 4 hours, ours lasted 6 hours and some other said theirs lasted the whole night.
• Water it's for 300 Litres
• Showers, not sure how long they last, didn't try them. The cost was too high so showered on the boat.

The old railway station

On the 4th June we rode our bikes to Luneville to see the Chateau De Luneville, 8 kilometers away with hills to ride up and down. We did this with the intention to have lunch at a restaurant while we were in town. Didn't work out that way, Sunday the restaurants were closed, we found a bar opened that didn't sell food, but you were able to buy food at the Boulangerie next door and eat at their tables with their drinks.

The Chateau wasn't much of a Castle either. Looked great from outside, inside was more like a museum, not the usually were they have rooms made up like they would have been used.

View of the Chateau from the Bar.

Luneville's Church

The garden looking from the Chateau

There was some sort of fair, with wooden games to try and this merry go round, a beekeeper explaining how honey is made, that sort of thing.

View from the end of the garden looking back at the Chateau

Varangeville - Saint Nicolas de Port - 2nd May to 3rd May 2023

 This is a stop on the side, does have bollards for easier mooring. No facilities. 

Does have a supermarket and a Musee Fracais de la Brasserie, a French museum of Brewery. 

As we were walking back from Saint Nicolas to the boat in Varangeville, I turned around and saw the church we had walked to. You can see it in the back with it's two towers.