Many of us have images of the Somme from the First World War....Battle of the Somme, wet, muddy, trenches, damp, etc. But that was a long time ago. Today the Somme is very different. We arrived in Canal de la Somme a few days ago and it is very pretty and very green. Haven't seen any mud yet but of course we didn't go to Glasto this year, although we did watch it in the middle of nowhere in France on Soraya. It was amazing! Think we'll have to go again next year!! Back to La Somme....the canal is quite narrow and not very deep, so we have to keep fairly central to avoid grounding, no time to day-dream while steering.
La Somme
Lunch on La Somme
Along the Somme there are so many fruit trees. We found lots of cherry trees absolutely laden with cherries. Obviously the French birds don't like them, you'd never get a tree with that many ripe cherries in the UK.......so it was out with the ladder and start picking and we had fresh cherries, cherry jam, cherry pie.......and further along, pears and plum trees, but not ripe yet so we'll have to take our time. We've met lots of people doing the same as us. So many evenings spent drinking and chatting into the early hours. No one's in a hurry and when we leave a mooring we know we'll catch up with them somewhere along the river/canal in a few days time. It's a long village!!
My cherry picker
2 comments:
It sounds idyllic Margaret xxx
Lovely to hear from you Penny. Enjoying it very much, although the weather took a turn yesterday, but better today xx
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