This building (right) is the Lavoire, or washhouse, where women would scrub their laundry while kneeling in the small stream. It also served as the village gossip center.
This 16th century chateau was directly opposite our moorage one evening, just across the canal. When we looked out of our porthole in the morning to see this, we realize we're not in Kansas anymore.
This photograph shows the perfect rows of tall, ancient trees lining the canal. Joggers, strollers, cyclists, families, fishermen, campers, used the white chalky trail, formerly the tow path for horse, alongside the canal
Throw in a wide semi-circular couch with the dining table tucked away behind, a Pour Your Own bar, a classical French floor rugs, and some French accordion music, and the saloon is the perfect place to relax and talk with other guests.
A walk through the restored Abbey of Fontenay, one of the finest surviving monasteries of Romanesque architecture, gave us a first hand idea of what monastic life entailed
Perched on a mountaintop, and surrounded by a thick green forest, the gorgeous walled village of Flavigny-sur-Ozerain is best known for where the bittersweet hit film “Chocolat” was filmed in 2000