Montbeliard - Montreux-Chateau 31 May

What a way to start the day!

This is the day when we have to return our remote controls. We have to be at lock number 8 at 10.30. So we and the Swiss gentlemen set off at 8.30, met up with canal people, handed over our remotes and had them drive from lock to lock opening and closing. 

And a steady drizzle kept us company all the way. We noticed that the church towers are changing, no longer the rounded bell towers. 

Arrived in Montreux at 12.30 and at 13.00 the sun came out! We are now at the watershed and from tomorrow we start going down hill to Mullhouse.

Lunch consisted of Montbeliard sausage, which Carl found out is eaten here.

Took a walk into the village to see this chapel.

It is the Chapelle Saint Catherine.

The last lock upstream lock, from tomorrow it is downstream, much easier.

Lellebelle bathing in the sun after a tough morning in rain and locks. The water in the canal is very brown. It seems that the river Allan, which feeds the canal, is very brown.

Great dinner on the restaurant La Peniche, the barge parked right behind us. Barge in French is Peniche so La Peniche translated to English is The Barge

A view along the canal. We are now in an area called Territoire de Belfort. Up to now we have been travelling through the Jura district, along the Jura mountains, which are millions of years older than the Alps and therefore are much lower and rounder due to weather and wittering over all this time.

The main town in Territoire Belfort is called Belfort. The area offers a wide spectrum of activities and beautiful nature. Of course, now the sun has appeared, we can appreciate how beautiful it is. We started on this Rhin Rhon canal on the 24 th May, that's one week ago. We have about 2 days before we reach Mullhouse, which is where we leave the canal and start looking for the Rhine, our old friend. But this time we are going downstream.