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A Visit to Nevers

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We'd been thinking about a canal barge trip for years. While some are attracted to the crewed “hotel” barges, we wanted to "do our own thing". By that I mean we simply rented the boat; no captain or crew other than ourselves. To make the long flight worthwhile, we added 2 days in Paris to the front end and a week with a car at the back. I'll put the second week in a separate blog.

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A Visit to Nevers

June 2, 2005

Yet another day in paradise! Up at about 8:30, Lin made ham & cheese omelets. We were off shortly before 10 but only went a short way before turning left into a branch canal that went into Nevers. Here we went through 2 automatic locks, the first automatic locks we'd encountered. Also, because we'd been moving upstream all week but the branch canal went down into Nevers, these were the first ones where we descended. Each had a lift of about 3 meters but they were SLOW. Each one took about 30 minutes. We were tied up at the port of Nevers a few minutes after 12 & walked into town. After a ho-hum lunch at Taverne St. Louis, we walked around this beautiful city. Especially impressive was the cathedral. When we ran out of steam, we stopped at the bakery, then headed back & loafed. For dinner, we walked to Cafe de la Marine on the other side of the canal from where the boat was tied.