Back to Clamecy

Double rainbow on the day Queen Elizabeth died.
The ancient boats here in Clamecy for the Flottage Festival

More boats for the Festival
Great name for the vessel.
The festival took over the harbor.
It was a grear Festival and will be back next year as well.
Boats that are larger had sails.
You can see that these boats are small and now have motors.

Boats and the lock at Clamecy.


 Heading back to Clamecy with plans to get supplies, do chores, etc. Our friends are joining us for a few days and we are going back to be more accesible to the train.  

On the way we encounter two old style boats, and it turns out they are heading to Clamecy for the first annual Flottage Festival.  This celebrates the logging industry that originated in Clamecy to supply wood for Paris. There was a delivery method that was the reason the canal du Nivernais was built.  Hard still to imagine how they dug the canal all by hand and horse.  

We arranged ourselves in Clamecy at the marina, and then all sorts of ancient boats started to arrive.  We moved out of the center marina to facilitate the festival.  We  went out to dinner at another lovely French restaurant and enjoyed the town

Went again to the wonderful market and then started up Juniper to leave as the lock would not be available after lunch.  Went a few locks down, and then bicycled back to enjoy the festival.  It was really a lot of fun with old insturments playing for dancers, the Lions Club making lunch, art exhibits, more ancient boats, and an entire replica of a log flottage  Got some fun souvenirs and then biked back.  

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