Thursday, 3 August 2023

Deluz - 31st July to 3rd August 23

Marina details - Electricity, water and showers are free. Shower is unlimited water no push button and you can choose your own temperature. Damn I've missed that.

Downside, the town has no supermarket, no boulangerie, does have 2 restaurants, 1 a Burger restaurant close to the marina and the other is a Bar and Restaurant in town.

A great place for us to spend two days in the rain working and catching up on laundry with our washing machine / dryer.




This is the old papermill. Went out of business in the late 70's












Monday, 31 July 2023

Doubs river - weeds and locks :(

 Yeah these weeds are getting a bit boring. This first shot is in a canalised part of the trip. There's not enough flow to clear the weeds. In the last 3 days we have done:

  • 25 locks in 23 kms
  • 13 locks in 31 kms
  • 6 locks in 18 kms

With the exception of 2 locks, e v e r y   s i n g l e   o n e   o f   t h e m   has been set for the other way meaning we have use the remote to trigger the lock and then wait about 10 minutes while if fills the lock and then opens the gate for us.

In addition to that, 2 of the locks were just plain not responsive so we've had to call the VNF and then wait up to an hour for them to get here and reboot it or whatever.

With the weeds, each time we come out of the canal bit and into the river we need to stop at a pontoon and then dive down and clear the prop. At least in the river the water is clean.

First world problems.






Baume-les-Dames - 30th July to 31st July 23

 Port in front of the restaurant Misarin, you pay at the restaurant, electricity and water with berth fees, no showers. Has a large supermarket in town, a short walk. We were going to stop here for 2 days to do some work, but the internet was not strong enough to do remote logins.


 

Sunday, 30 July 2023

L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs - 29th July to 30th July

 Port is on the side of the Canal near Ecluse #26, has 2 Electricity boxes, the one closest to the ecluse when we were there wasn't working, has water no showers.

Has a new supermarket, Intermarche Hyper, and it is very large, great spot to restock and there is a mooring close to the supermarket, but the wall is high.

Car park for the supermarket has covered car parking with double sided solar panels.



Ecluse #26 de L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs with Sun Chi in the back.






Saturday, 29 July 2023

Montbeliard - 25th July to 29th July 2023

 Marina - 20 euros a night or 72.50 euros for a week, includes water and electricity. We paid for a week but only stayed 4 nights. We've decided to go home early so now we're on a time limit.

3.50 for showers and to use the washing machine and dryer. When you pay at the machine, you will get a QR code which you will need for the shower and Laundry.

Short walk to center of town and supermarkets.




























Clock tower from the park
Clock tower from the canal as we were driving past.