July 2019

Strolling around with Tashi I came across this beautiful bush in Carcassonne. It was most spectacular.

I'm not sure what it is, but with a view to possibly having a French garden, I must investigate this!

We managed to get a good mooring at Trebes behind the quay for hotel boats. Only the fact that one hotel boat, Enchante and the kindness of the skipper, Freddie, offered to fill us up with water that enabled us to stay for some weeks. Ni wanted to get the old disconnected fuel tank out. Again with Freddies help they heaved it out, and as luck would have it, just as it was hauled up onto the bank, a town rubbish truck came along. So with the promise a some beers the men kindly took the tank away for us. Problem solved. Thank goodness for that, as I don't think Ni and I would have been able to lift the heavy weight from the car once we had arrived at the decheterie!

Removal achieved with the necessity of cutting - hoorah!

 Trebes is a lively port mainly due to being a 'Le Boat' hire base. So the restaurants opposite do very well during the summer months. The regular quay side concerts also draw crowds to the town.

A lively lot!

By this time it was getting really hot, and we experienced a heat wave for the following two months. So not a lot of boat work was done.

We decided not to go any further downstream as that would mean more upstream locks to deal with on our return, which neither of us relished. As it was getting rather full at the quay we thought it was time to move on.

Hotel boat, bumper boats and us!