Dizy

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Camp mother gives one last check before we go

Booking .com is a great site but occasionally the advert is ,to say the least ,misleading. This place looked good but it had no wifi ( essential in this day and age) no towels or even SOAP. Your only recourse is to give them a bad review.

Enough grizzling. We crossed the river to get out of town and straight onto a proper bike trail, hopefully to carry on for the rest of this route
Reuil
The travelling butcher was in town
The lock keepers house at Venteuil

It’s worth mentioning here that the reason I chose this particular route to Strasbourg is its interesting history. The route uses 3 major rivers, crossing 3 catchments as it goes. Built in 1846 to provide a transport route from Paris to Strasbourg in the Alsace. The Marne gets shallower and narrower from here on so the engineers of the day built a canal lateral. This is what we will stay on now until it leaves the Marne

Dizy is above Épernay
It’s 27° and the shade is delicious! This is biking at its best !
Riverside cafe at Damere. I always ask for ‘grand cafe’ but all the locals get the little espresso and will sit on them with a cigarette for an hour or so. (The lady watering her flowers was actually the subject of Christine’s shot)
Damere from the cafe
Sculptures lined the river at Cumieres. All pertaining to Champagne making
On the valley hills the fields of champagne grapes go on endlessly. Beautiful countryside
And so does the art
Our turnoff to Dizy

Just to bring us back to the real world we have a barge ‘ hoarder ‘. I’ve never seen so much junk on a boat, and beside it on the quay.

Back to the subject of misleading advertising. This is a very nice hotel and it had a BATH. We were so looking forward to a soak.

Certainly won’t fit two people 😳
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