Soissons - Riviere d'Aisne canalisee
Sans Peur
Grete & Fred Vithen
Mon 13 Oct 2014 09:05
Yesterday we arrived at Soissons about five o'clock. This is a city and we are mooring right in the centre. We found a tasty bottle (Bordeaux) of vine and fresh bread from the local boulangeri and this we enjoyed in our cock pit (outside) together with the fantastic jamon serrano we got from Yolanda and Alberto. And this in the middle of October!!
The last two days on the river/canal has been very enjoyable, no stress and reasonable numbers of locks. It's so much easier to handle the locks now.
BUT, I really hurt my big toe...aj, aj aj......
I had some worries during the night, how am I suppose to do all this locks with my wouded toe???? So far so well. I'm so happy using my flipflops, without them I couldn't make it. People are looking at me a bit strange, flipflop in October?? I don't care ...
Well, back to Soissons. Internet sucks and we are trying to find McDonalds, hoping to use their internet, we are no fans of their food, a coffe will do, as we have done so many times around the world. We where not able to find it but instead we found a very nice ruin of a beautiful catederal built i 1076, amazing.
The catederal which is "working" today, have remainings from year 314!! Impressing!!
Now we have been "on the road" for one month, it feels so much longer. We have met so many nice and helpful people already, it's fantastic. We encountered and solved some problems on our way and now soon we will reach our first major goal, Paris......
Here in Soissons we see signs to Paris and if you go by train to Paris from here it will take you one hour!!!
For us it will take four to five days if everything goes well. "Snail moving" you may call it, but we discover and enjoy so many details on the way, one is the company of all the ducks and swans that are locking with us, nice.
