We travelled to Mâcon to meet a group of friends and to pick up Penichettes at the Locaboat base in Mâcon. We were to be sailing along the Saône, Seille and the Canal du Centre to reach Saint-Léger-sur-Dheune in a week. Those joining this cruising party came here from many places and they will move on to many others after this week. Most of them have a connection with the Northern Territory in Australia and, every couple of years or so, we find a reason to gather on a body of water and float about. Some still live in the NT. Some still work for a living. We are all becoming older though and fewer are employed every year. Enough about us and on to Macon, the starting point for this journey. Mâcon is a city
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