July 24-25 2023 - Coulanges to Paray-le-Monial Leaving the Canal Lateral a la Loire to the Canal du Centre when we passed through Digoin
With the storm this morning, we waited until 10am to depart. Don’t like playing with lightning. SMS to the éclusier to schedule a 10am at lock no 2 toward Digion. Told that was the wrong number. When we got there, found it was the right number. Tee hee, Joan was right. Weather is breezy, cloudy and warm. Very nice!
We crossed the Pont Canal de Digoin. An aquaduct over La Loire River. Joan got off the boat and ran ahead to take pictures of the boat crossing.
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| Juniper crossing over la Loire river on an aquaduct. We now begin the Canal du Centre |
With automatic locks on the la Loire we didn’t stop for lunch. Wasn’t sure what the weather/wind was going to do so wanted to get in. Arrived in Paray-le-Monial around 14h30. Again, only a couple boats. Turns out there was a “Sessions Emanual” event that ended yesterday. A religious revival kind of event. There were lots and lots of tents and looks like they were set up for hundreds of people or more. So glad we weren’t here for that!
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| Entering one of our first automatic écluses - The green light indicates we can enter |
Walked to the small Carrefore grocery store to add to our supplies. Just relaxing on the boat and enjoying the cooler temps and a mint Julep. Still predicting thunderstorms through Wed We’ll walk into the town again tonight as in the past they had lights all over and it was beautiful. Hopefully the weather holds for that.
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| La Basilique de Paray-le-Monial lit up for the evening July 25, 2023 – Tuesday - Paray-le-Monial Layover day as we have high winds, rain and thunderstorms. |
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