Canal du Centre

Canal du Centre

Friday, September 28, 2018

Moret sur Loing, August 17-19

Cathy Jo was on the dock in Ventura the other day and Robin said “You can’t be here. You’re still in France. I read the blog.” Yes, well, I am a little behind. We returned to Ventura Sept. 18 but I’m trying to catch up. Now back to our regularly scheduled blog.

Moret sur Loing was the home for many years of the impressionist painter Alfred Sisley, a British colleague of Monet and Renoir, who died here in 1899. Many parts of town look like they came right out of one of Sisley's paintings. In fact they do. The tourist walking tour map shows exactly where you can stand to see what Sisley painted.


The mill



Le Pont de Moret is one of Sisley’s works.


A balloon flies over the Moret moorings on Saturday evening

The weather was very pleasant and it was the weekend so there much activity around the waterfront. There was even a fete with the usual music and food in the town square Saturday night. We’d already had dinner so we settled for some delicious ice cream for dessert to accompany Christine and her “band” (a couple of backup singers performing to a prerecorded instrumental track).


Sunday morning we were off down the Canal du Loing; the waterway paralleling the Loing River. Other than the short Nancy bypass canal we took in very early June, this would be the first “new water” for the year. We were looking forward to it.

7 comments:

  1. Nice to see Moret is back after the shocking floods of a few years ago, and nice to hear you are "back" too! :-)

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    1. Everything there is as we remembered it from 2009. The capitane showed us where the water got up to in her office. It's all sparkly and new now.

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  2. Just loved Moret-sur-Loing - we moored at St Mammés and cycled in each day. Two Aussie boats there so we not only enjoyed the lovely town and beautiful weather but also some long evenings... (to be blogged sometime!)

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  3. oops, that would be St Mammès!

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    1. And I always have to look twice to see which way that accent goes!

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  4. Oh, and one of the Aussie boats was exactly the same as that which transports 'Fading Memories'.

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  5. So many places to wish for. This looks like a must go to, once the Hennie H is well again. I like the photo/painting double. I must look up Sisley! I’m glad to hear you are safely back to your other life again. You’ve had the most glorious summer!

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