Day's Progress: 15.5 kms : 3 locks (Total 318 kms : 155 locks)
Sunday morning: We got on our bikes and went across the river to St Satur. Every
month they have an Antique Fair in the parking lot next to the church. It wasn’t all that big, and I am not too sure about the stuff being ‘antique’ but the variety was amusing and varied. There were stalls selling embroidered bed linen, a French version of the UK Dinkies, toys, crockery and glassware and lots of other stalls selling ornaments of all descriptions. Clothing new and second was on display including used shoes and wellies! My personal favourite was the stuffed boars head (c1923) with very beady eyes. I also enjoyed the boiled egg server – see photo. It was splendid and I just know that this would bring laughter to anyone at breakfast time. It was just too big to cart around with us or I would have bought it.
We set off again on our travels at about 10h30. We had quite a bit of milage to do today and as there were very few locks on this stretch it would be a fairly easy day.
We stopped for lunch at Bannay and moored the boat outside a canal side restaurant called La Buissonniere. The dining room was on the first floor and overlooked the gardens and canal. We had a superb meal here and once again for an out of the way place the service and setting was fantastic. The waiters were great and food really good – I rated this meal best since Vincelles. We started with a little palate cleansing goody of chilled frothy tomato topped with chopped olives mixed into thick cream. What a winner. I then had a similar could soup with a scoop of pureed red peppers, herbs and mixed with cream – frozen like ice cream. For the main course I had poached fish on a bed of mashed potato – the potato was mashed with olive oil and sliced veg scattered around this island of mash. The person at the next door table had a meat dish that came served with an “island” of pureed carrot with sprigs of parsley sticking out like little trees. There were a couple of tiny onions on the island and a few carrot sticks that looked like logs hahahaha. I had cheese for pud which is always so delicious.
· The canal was very pretty today
· Saw our first golf course alongside the canal.
· There are some pastures that have spots of very, very green grass in them – small groups of black crows are strutting around in this bright green grass, looking perky and very pleased with themselves.
· Lere is lovely village, beautiful beds and pots of flowers all over the place. The mooring spot is next to a grain receiving depot and trucks are arriving full to the brim with grain – they then drive i
nto the silo area and unload.
Sunday morning: We got on our bikes and went across the river to St Satur. Every
month they have an Antique Fair in the parking lot next to the church. It wasn’t all that big, and I am not too sure about the stuff being ‘antique’ but the variety was amusing and varied. There were stalls selling embroidered bed linen, a French version of the UK Dinkies, toys, crockery and glassware and lots of other stalls selling ornaments of all descriptions. Clothing new and second was on display including used shoes and wellies! My personal favourite was the stuffed boars head (c1923) with very beady eyes. I also enjoyed the boiled egg server – see photo. It was splendid and I just know that this would bring laughter to anyone at breakfast time. It was just too big to cart around with us or I would have bought it.We set off again on our travels at about 10h30. We had quite a bit of milage to do today and as there were very few locks on this stretch it would be a fairly easy day.
We stopped for lunch at Bannay and moored the boat outside a canal side restaurant called La Buissonniere. The dining room was on the first floor and overlooked the gardens and canal. We had a superb meal here and once again for an out of the way place the service and setting was fantastic. The waiters were great and food really good – I rated this meal best since Vincelles. We started with a little palate cleansing goody of chilled frothy tomato topped with chopped olives mixed into thick cream. What a winner. I then had a similar could soup with a scoop of pureed red peppers, herbs and mixed with cream – frozen like ice cream. For the main course I had poached fish on a bed of mashed potato – the potato was mashed with olive oil and sliced veg scattered around this island of mash. The person at the next door table had a meat dish that came served with an “island” of pureed carrot with sprigs of parsley sticking out like little trees. There were a couple of tiny onions on the island and a few carrot sticks that looked like logs hahahaha. I had cheese for pud which is always so delicious.
· The canal was very pretty today
· Saw our first golf course alongside the canal.
· There are some pastures that have spots of very, very green grass in them – small groups of black crows are strutting around in this bright green grass, looking perky and very pleased with themselves.
· Lere is lovely village, beautiful beds and pots of flowers all over the place. The mooring spot is next to a grain receiving depot and trucks are arriving full to the brim with grain – they then drive i
nto the silo area and unload. · The town is up a smallish hill and to get to the main part of the town you walk up a delightful road with very quaint houses on either side. One vegetable garden has 3 life size figures (scarecrows?) either standing or seated on benches. They are well dressed and look like they are enjoying the garden. Made out of flowerpots and bits and pieces.
· The streets and town is spotless.
· The church is at the top of the hill – unfortunately locked. There is a spacious area around the church and houses border the one side and shops and a restaurant the other. There is also an old Roman bath behind the church and is very well preserved.
· The baskets and pots are filled with geraniums, petunias and marigolds. Marigolds look stunning.
· The streets and town is spotless.
· The church is at the top of the hill – unfortunately locked. There is a spacious area around the church and houses border the one side and shops and a restaurant the other. There is also an old Roman bath behind the church and is very well preserved.
· The baskets and pots are filled with geraniums, petunias and marigolds. Marigolds look stunning.
There was a man coming out of his house with a golden Lab on a leash – he was obviously taking it for a walk. A tabby cat followed them out of the gate – but the cat had on a harness and was tethered with a long piece of rope. Its owner didn’t want it straying onto the busy road. The cat had such a “pained” look on its face when it reached the end of its tether – quite cute – he then walked back into his grounds and lay waiting under the hedge.
We had dinner in the restaurant of the church square. They had a simple menu, mainly pizza crepe things and potato dishes. I had a ham and egg pizza crepe – it was delicious but too much to finish. Th
eir desert menu was pretty lengthy and varied – I was full so had to give desert a miss.
There was quite a lot of building and renovation going on in the town – it seemed to be flourishing – most probably because of the nuclear power station just down the road.
We had dinner in the restaurant of the church square. They had a simple menu, mainly pizza crepe things and potato dishes. I had a ham and egg pizza crepe – it was delicious but too much to finish. Th
eir desert menu was pretty lengthy and varied – I was full so had to give desert a miss.There was quite a lot of building and renovation going on in the town – it seemed to be flourishing – most probably because of the nuclear power station just down the road.
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