Back to Nancy

The weather was good for our last days in Remich and a street market along the river foreshore had some wonderful items for sale.

This fellow thought it was all good fun too!

Alison and Steve have joined us and we are off upstream on the Moselle. The river is partly canalised and our passage was sometimes on the river and sometimes in the canal built alongside it.

Peter has always kept an eye on various civil structural items, his liking for bridges is probably as well known as his passion for railways. Needless to say he was aghast when he saw traffic traveling over this bridge.

The trip back to Nancy was quite eventful and Alison and Steve will have some good memories of Peter trying to take Matilda up a closed canal and being unsure which way we should have been going up the Moselle River. Also the quite evening enjoying the ambience of a pleasant meal and a few drinks and having a passing barge cause a cupboard topple over with the loss of much crockery and glassware.

We moored for one evening in the diversion canal on a sound wall with bollards. (Those who have travelled with us know of our affinity for these and the safe and easy mooring they give us.) Lo and behold there was a discarded barbecue which Peter tidied up and lit. We had some great saucisse du Toulouse for dinner.

It was entertaining to watch the skipper of the barge moored in front of us as he returned from his shopping and put his car back on his boat.

Back in Nancy Ali and Steve caught the atmosphere of the town, visiting the city markets and enjoying the other sights.

 

 

Peter is trying to spread a rumour that a giant ball bearing company in town, blew up!

Steve and Alison left by train for Paris and home via Spain and we planned our next move. We were off to Paris too, but where they would take an hour and a half, we intend taking about a month.

There will be more stories to tell so – keep in touch.