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| Arriving on our beloved Sambre |
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| About the only industry remaining on the river in Belgium |
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Leaving the big lift at Strèpy Thieu a few days before arriving on
The Sambre |
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| Faring through Tournai on our fourth day from home |
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| Typical Wallonian scenery |
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Evening at one of our favourite moorings in Antoing
south of Trournai |
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| One of the biggest locks on the Canal Nimy-Blanton |
On the Sambre
Unfortunately, captioning all these photos seems to be too difficult on my iPad. I hope you enjoy them anyway and I’ll try and address the problem later. For now, we have had a wonderful two and a bit weeks, and are now heading northwards for home next weekend. My apologies for the lack of posts and disorganized order of the photos, but I’ll do my best to sort them out and add text soon.
Have a great weekend allemaal and I’ll fill you in as soon as signal and connection allows. Meanwhile, maybe you’d like to guess at some of the spots pictured here :)
You lucky pair! I'm so glad you've finally got out on the rivers. I look forward to hearing more.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Roger. We feel incredibly lucky as we never imagined we’d reach where we wanted to go. The canal closures have come thick and fast, but we’ve been blessed to travel on the Sambre as far into France as we wanted to go. There will definitely be more later!
DeleteNo apologies necessary, Val. The pictures tell the story. So glad you were both able to get out on the river! Happy fairing!
ReplyDeleteThank you! We feel incredibly blessed that we’ve been able to go where we wanted. I hope you’ve had a wonderful summer too, but I’ll catch up with you blog very soon. We are now at the historic lifts in Belgium on our way home, so signals are improving!
DeleteGood to see you're "somewhere else" now. I enjoyed seeing these photo's, that lock is really deep. Your boat is very attractive.
ReplyDeleteThank you, David. We are delighted to have been able to get so far given the water shortages. I’ll be writing real blogs soon and hopefully our route will become clear. Some of these locks are so huge, it’s mind boggling!
DeleteIt looks like a wonderful trip! Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteIt has been, Kathleen. Just wonderful! Thank you, my dear.
DeleteWhat lovely memories. Thanks for sharing your trip with us. Outstanding photos. (Steph)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Steph. It’s a bit disjointed, but I’ll sort that out soon.
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