Got through the locks in Toulouse this morning and are now moored safely
in the City and hope to get a WiFi connection to upload pics.
Transiting the locks was very scarey as they are fully automatic, no
green button to press to say you are ready, and were a different layout
to the ones we have used to date so we were desperately tying on warps
as the gates closed. The mitigation was that the water was let in
gently so it was OK, but we did not know that at the time! Three people
would make transiting the next canals easier as you have to let someone
off to open the gates whereas on the locks we have done to date you
twist a pole hanging from a switch as you pass it on the water.
We have until the end of the month to get through the canals, if we
don't we are stuck were ever we end up until next March!
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