A blog about our trip to France in September 2023. Featuring Bernhard, Clare and Annie and meeting up with friends Christine and Jim on the Canal du Midi.
This blog will always show the latest entry on top and is in reverse order with the earliest entry at the end. We hope you enjoy our little trip.
Update (28th of April, 2024). I’m still attempting to finish this blog. I was enjoying myself so much during the trip, I didn’t keep the blog updated. I think I remember most of it (but there are already parts I’m forgetting) and so those parts that I remember, I’ll write up. I really wish I had location tracking turned on for my photos, it would have helped the memory a lot.
This trip was so good, I have to go again.
The last day was our most full on day; we really packed it in and could never have planned it.
Breakfast at Montparnasse (meh!)
Bag shopping
Boat Ride
Le Train Bleu
I'm tired, but WE'RE IN PARIS. Yay!
Market
Bed (for me) Clare and Annie went back to the market.
Up again.
WOW.
Belondrade and the Quadruple lock of Castelnaudy
Doddle Day.
Carcassone to Belondrade (just outside Castelnaudry)
It's early Thursday morning and Jim and Christine are heading off to the train station to catch a ride to Toulouse Airport and Greece.
We have the most locks to handle in one day for this whole trip and I'm concerned we will struggle. I was wrong. We did too well.
Carcassonne
Last day with Jim and Christine.
Trebes to Carcassonne
Argens-Minervois to Trebes
Oh my goodness; it's so humid!
The first lock we had to wait a full cycle, which meant a delay of more than an hour. Pretty spot though.
Lunch at Homps
Dinner at Trebes, parked just before the double lock and walked to dinner (italian).
Capestang to Argens-Minervois
Dull, dull day; she is not a sunny day at all. Oh well.
Took off reasonably early and had a breakfast that was typical for the rest of the boat journey, which was Coffee, Croissants & Pain u Chocolait, which we ate as we sail along.
Immediately, we ventured under the lowest bridge on the ...
Not much to say about today, but a long drive down to the south of France.
Pretty hectic driving here. We mostly cruised at 130kmh on a very packed tollway.
The little Renault Megane we hired was not the most stable at that speed and didn't have a lot of power. I must admit that I was a little stressed and tired with this drive as ...
Today, we left early-ish, about 8:00-8:30am, and drove down to Basel in Switzerland. We had to hop into Germany for a few kays and then into Switzerland (Basel). Naturally, we lost our mobile signal again.
The weather was very grey and drizzly. It cleared up about halfway through Switzerland at lake Geneva and Montreaux (as seen in ...
We woke up and did some early shopping in and site seeing in Colmar and inteded to go to Munster again and try the Cheese Tasting.
Unfortunately, we got there too late and it was closed for lunch and the restaurant was closed for the day, so we drove over to Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg (opening picture, above).