Froncles then Joinville

Things went well today no significant hold ups but still only 9 locks and 13miles some more lovely scenery on the way but also lots of weed in the canals so we were constantly checking the exhaust. Joinville has an odd chateau, it’s not a real home it was only ever used for entertaining really by a single gent so not many rooms but the gardens are very ornate and it became known as the Chateau de Grand Jardins. Worth a look around, we then visited the cathedral, and no offense to those of you who are believers but an awful lot of money is used on these places of worship, and we climbed the hill to the ruins of the Haut Chateau, there wasn’t much left. That’s what you get when you sell to a stone mason, we figure lots of the 19th century properties of the area are built from Chateau stone.Read more