Bateliers and Batelières (Bargees, male and female) are quite a direct bunch. Here to do a job and make a profit and as such do not suffer fools lightly or to rephrase do not suffer plaisance (pleasure craft) who might be blocking/slowing their passage lightly. Actually they do have a legal right of way and first in at a lock even if they are last to arrive. They are a great and interesting crew with kids, family, dogs, cars, boats etc. all on board. Obviously they do a physical job with demanding hours going from sun up to sun down and with this physical lifestyle tattoos and certain physique are de rigueur, for both sexes. Fine. But what's with the lace curtains! Hard and demanding lifestyle, I can understand the tattoos, goes with the hard image, but lace curtains, no. Just don't see you can be the hard man/women and go back to the lace curtains/blinds. Virtually 100% of commercial barges have lace curtains/blinds/nets. This applies to the older 38+ metre tradition barges and to new 100 metre + barges, even the high tech fuel barges. It's all a bit strange. And that's not even mentioning the wife beaters.
Batelier we ran into, not literally
Batelière we had a few! glasses of red with
Traditional 38+ metre barge - laced up!
Modern 100 metre barge with gantry, crushed Audi A7 and lace curtains. Yes it is the one which had an accident in a previous post.
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It's good job the car was there or the boat would have been damaged? And that it wasn't a fiat 500 ;)
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