{"id":1959,"date":"2019-04-20T18:02:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T18:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2019-04-20T18:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T18:02:44","slug":"april-7-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"April 7, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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note the slightly twisted and leaning tower? in Mouzon<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>The first 10 days of cruising has allowed me to really get back into the exploration of France. First with friend Steve C aboard, we headed up the Meuse towards Verdun. This is the section that I explored with Pat and Kerry last fall, but what a difference in the river at flood, rather than in drought! The leaves are still just hinting, but the afternoons in the sunshine are really welcome, and spring-like. We moored, by ourselves, in the center of Verdun. (Last fall, the moorings were stuffed with boats awaiting rain and returning water levels, as the canal above Verdun was closed). A couple of days provisioning and exploring with Steve, and then he had to leave.<\/p>\n

I then continued up the ever-narrowing Meuse river, through increasingly canalized sections, to Commercy, where I awaited my next guests, Kathy and Dan M. We set out, after awaiting the burning off of morning fog, further up the canal\/river, eventually arriving at the junction of the Meuse canal and the canal Marneau Rhine Est, and a quiet village mooring at Pagny sur Meuse. A very sleepy village, but looming above are vast stone quarry workings, where a huge amount of building stone and other stone products are mined. Then, onward through a 0.8km tunnel and a flight of 12 locks, to Toul.<\/p>\n

With a full marina, just outside the walled city, Toul is really full of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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