France May 2013 212

I do like a nice canal

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May 29th 2013
Back on the train to Narbonne this time. Again inspired by the lovely Rick Stein, I took the long walk from the train station towards the small town centre which is based around the very pretty canal de la Robine. Again typical of this trip that it wasn't at it's most glorious as both sides of the main canal basin were dug up having lots of work being done on them to make it into a bouleva ... read more

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