Rosa Wednesday 8 June 2016

We took a short walk round the moorings after breakfast before the days excursion. Although there are no gates on the lock below where we are moored there is quite a flow through it so the weir must still be across the river to some extent even if its submerged, you can see the bridge that was illuminated last night behind it
   Today’s excursion was to the Abbaye St Pierre in town behind the restaurant where we had dinner last night. Again like many old buildings this has changed greatly since the first stone was laid. When they built the railway that runs just behind the Abbey they were going to take it right through the cloisters, even now it chops through between the Abbey buildings.
                              

We wandered back down to the boat for lunch on the deck again before casting off to lock back up to the canal at 2 o’clock, the only problem was the lock keeper didn’t start work until 2-30 pm. As we were moored the umbrellas were up to give a bit of shade.

The full party is in this one. Elizabeth, Jeff, Jean, John, Diana, me and Helen.

 

As we were early for the lock we had a bit of hanging about to do in the river current before we were on our way up to the Canal de Garonne again.

Once back on the canal we continued by turning right and after three locks we were crossing The River Tarn on the Pont Canal du Cacor, this was the aqueduct we had passed under yesterday afternoon on the river.
Our mooring for the night was Castelsarrasin, not a spot I would have chosen in the UK to moor with the boat under a bridge as there would be no telling what you would find on the roof in the morning, but here in France we were just fine. Just before we reached our mooring there is a duck house just to the edge of the main channel.  
There were some interesting boats moored in the basin one was a Narrowboat style wide beam with a fly bridge.

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