River Erdre

We left the farm via a different route and rejoined the canal. We met our family for lunch and then reached the end of the canal at lock 2 where is joins the River Erdre. I took the picture at the lock looking out into the river.

The river here is deep and wide and never had much of a tow path, most boats put sails on and sailed down the last few kilometres to Nantes. So we had to leave the canal and take a detour in land before we rejoined a river side path through the city of Nantes.

We cycled all the way to Lock 1, which holds the river level up in the city and beyond the lock you are into the tidal part of the river. I did photograph the first (or in our case last lock) but it wasn't very pretty and it's in a pretty industrial setting.

Once we really made it the end we went back through the centre of the city to our bike friendly B&B to crash out before going for dinner with our family. Nantes is a fantastic city, very vibrant and very bike friendly so I managed to take loads of pictures but I can only put one here and it's the river.

Backblip. This picture and the most of the rest are now on-line here: Summer 2013