Rain boat
It rained through the night and well into the morning. Peter and Jennifer made a damp bike ride to a boulangerie for supplies and we hunkered down for the morning.
At 11:45 we started moving and got to the first lock just as they closed for lunch. Yes that’s a thing – French locks with keepers take an hour off for lunch. So we had lunch too.
After that we motored on down the canal for about an hour through a few locks to the town of Bram. There we moored and cycled up to the town itself – we have bikes on our boat. Bram is a pretty place with small streets in concentric circles around the church. It was also so quiet that the rapture might have occurred.
Bram explored, we debated our next move. Sundays are not the easiest to find things open. In the end we decided to make a shorted day even shorter and stay moored on the canal near Bram – simply because the restaurant on the other side of the canal is open tonight.
The restaurant proved to be amazing. A three course meal and local wines was a stunner. So our rainy day turned out to be extremely lucky in the end.
Evan and Jennifer, enjoying your travel blogs, as ever. Mightily impressed by the amount of travelling you do!
In the summer of 2007 we rented a boat on the Canal du Midi for a week, from Castenaudry, as you’re doing. We finished somewhere between Béziers and Agde. We didn’t sail as far as as Agde, but were cycling distance from Agde.
Joey (then 18, half his lifetime ago) turned out to be a very skilled canal boat operator! My experience had been limited to UK canals and rivers, when we owned a small cabin cruiser.
Enjoy your trip!
We moved house about three weeks ago, so all chaotic in our new home!
PS Restaurant in Bram sounds delicious – was it the Restaurant L’Ile aux Oiseaux?
Typo above – that’s Castelnaudry