This morning before we left Kortrijk, Ian went for a walk and found this interesting panel with history of the town. Click on the photo to enlarge it so you can read it.
We sadly said goodbye to Lynn and Shaun who are going south and we began retracing our steps along the busy Leie River. There
are 2 big locks on this section of the river at Harelbeke and St Baafsvijve and
there is often a queue of commercial barges waiting in line. This time we were lucky to be allowed into
the locks straight away, no waiting, with other commercial traffic, but my
goodness they do get up close and personal - there were just centimetres
between these two.
In the other lock there were
2 dogs on the barge which jumped off with their owner as soon as the barge tied
up, dashed up and down until the water started to go down, then jumped back on
again.
What a lovely cargo, just one
of those logs would provide us with enough wood to keep warm for the whole winter.
We have seen quite a lot of
these rather strange cows. Apparently
they are called Belgian Blues and are double muscled.
True or not, they certainly must provide a
lot of steak.
This boat is tied up a bit
along the quay from us. It is all
covered in camouflage, as are the owners (that is he walking alongside the boat),
and the poster on the front says "Lock, open!" and is attached to a
dummy gun! Not a great advert for
cruisers, is it?
This evening a big barge came through the lift bridge and had to swing his stern towards us to make it around the tight corner.
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