Chalon sur Saone and Seurre

Fortunately with our previous nights stop being moved closer we were able to moor up in the marina and make it to the morning market in front of St Pierre church. We did another of the self guided tours, this one was well marked unlike the one in Tournus that we kept loosing. For me the most memorable sights were the Doyenne tower and Mothe House. The Tower because it was sold and taken down in 1907 to go to Paris for auction, fortunately a wealthy American bought it and gave it back to the commune. The House because of how it looked stone arches on ground floor and wooden half timbered above. The cathedrals was also impressive as they all are, the Church is seriously loaded. We also experienced a little culture as we were able to visit a photography museum. Nicéphore-Niepce was born in Chalon and was the forerunner in inventing photography as we know it. We also found time for a little food shopping. The next morning we fueled up, and met some Brits who actually live in France they were relocating a hire boat. We stopped for lunch at Verdun sur Doubs so we could add another river to our list, we had thought about stopping but if we did that they wanted us to moor stern too and John wasn’t happy about having and dive platform acting as a fender, ( there was nothing at all to keep the bow out). We ended up at Seurre and met the Brits again, it was good to chat. We have seen lots of charolais cattle, herons, storks, egrets, swallows, and buzzards over the last few days and heard a lot of large fish flapping around. This was also the day we started to see more pleasure traffic on the river about 9 boats most private but two hire, one captain seemed to be playing dodgems with his hire boat.Read more