Underway again 

We had a brief hold up at the first lock waiting for the lockie to come and switch it all on.  Supposed to open at 9.00 but he only turned up about 9.15.  What a surprise.  Same story after lunch.  We arrived at a lock at 12.40, lunch hour is 12 to 1, and he didn't turn up till 1.15.  The only other niggle was the water intake for the engine getting blocked when we traversed the section that has been closed for the last  2 days, but the first lockie did warn us that there was a lot of debris in the water.  We stopped at low town quai and Ian managed to clear it.  It was coldish when we left, about 5, but soon warmed up so we had to strip some extra layers. 

 We passed a very imposing chateau but there were too many trees lining the canal bank and the only good pic I got was when we could only see the side of it.  It's called Chateau Digoine, quite and eye opener. 

This is an area with lots of clay and this appears to be some sort of kiln

Now we are in a small town called Genelard where the the stones used to pave the streets of Paris were loaded onto barges and hauled all the way to Paris, took 20 days.

The other interesting thing about this place is that it was on the demarcation line, or internal border, between German-occupied France and "free" France.  The bridges across the rivers and canals were manned by the Germans and people were not allowed to cross.  However, at this town, the cemetery was on the other side of the canal so people wanting to escape occupied France would join a funeral procession and just not come back.