June 3rd 2016

Canals and rivers closed , floods everywhere between here and Paris, so we're out of here, as it's STILL raining! One of the canal banks on the Loing, our proposed route, has collapsed and the canal which leads south to the Briare and the Lateral a la Loire means that entire route is not accessible for at least two months while they re-build that section.

Some people are trapped in mid-journey at whichever point they got to before the canals closed and sitting it out, some without power and water supplies. Laddie had a play with his Cornish friend Louis the Basset hound yesterday when we drove  over to the Loire on a mercy mission with a fresh gas bottle, and car keys, for our friends who set out three weeks ago.

So as we cannot move for a predicted 2 weeks we are leaving this Sunday for 2 weeks in a gite in the Luberon hills in Provence, just north of Marseilles, where so far it is sunny and NOT raining. Yet...........

Fuel seems to be available again so the 363 miles one way should not be a problem.

Looking forward to our 'holiday' now, and will report from the deep south later on.

Phrase of the week for budding francophiles: 

Avoir la gueule de bois  .......  what does that mean?

First responder will get another amusing one.

Bon weekend 

John Sue and Laddie