Rolampont

The cascades were quite beautiful and damp and shaded what’s not too love. The water falls over the sedimentary calcium rocks and builds up walls to create pools, the moss and lichen grow with it to avoid being drowned so you get these layers of pools but then the water direction changes and old sections dry out as new ones are formed. John had got warm on the ride there so decided to paddle his feet. The facial expression I caught as his feet reached the water is priceless. On the ride back to the boat we scrumped plums and nearly cherries but although the cherries 🍒 were ripe they were still very bitter so we gave them a miss. We are now in Chaumont but it was a long long day it took us 8 1/2 hours to complete 15 locks and 1 lift bridge and 16 miles. The lift bridge was unmanned when we got to it so we had to wait 1/2 hour and then the next Lock was broken another 1/2hour wait. Each lock takes an average of 20 mins and when underway we aren’t allowed to go faster than 4km/hr so this part of the journey is going to take a lot longer than the Saone or Rhône even though it’s shorter there seems to be a lock every mile.Read more