#St Quentin Tunnel

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Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (1867–1943) - The Tunnel Mouth, Bellicourt, the Hindenburg Line, December 1918, oil on canvas

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‘Ah, well, that’s warm, friendly France for you.’

 June 8th - 21st June

And was Grace Kelly ever right when she said those immortal words in ‘To Catch a Thief’. 

Maybe it’s just the north of France but the people here have been turning on the friendly happies and ‘Bonjour’-ing away with unrestrained French gusto.

Every ‘Bonjour’ brings a little glow of pleasure to our trip.

Our first proper night in France introduced us to WEED. Not the smoking stuff but the ‘herb-malereuse’ type, also know as ‘Milfoil’, an aquatic plant escaped from aquariums and thriving in shallow canals making them even shallower. 

As we entered the beginning of the Canal St.Quentin the combination of shallow water, few barges and lots of weed saw us wild moor opposite very helpful neighbours.

One supplied a super sized mallet for our Rond anchors, one brought out her chair to watch the entertainment and one, Adrian, showed some of us his renovations of an old wine merchant property. 

Then after dinner Adrian bought local beers over and we conversed avec l’aide de M.Google.

Di and Graeme’s boat ‘Opdreef’ nestled in with the weed.

At Cambrai Bernie joined us for a week of French fun and frivolity.

Bernie’s first night coincided with Graeme’s 70th birthday, a cause for great celebrations.

The next night Adrian came back to visit but this time with his WW2 troop mover. He took Mark and the ‘Opdreef’ crew for a noisy spin around Cambrai.

Down the St Quentin canal we slowly motored, limboing under bridges. Our air height is 3.5m. Some of the bridges were only 3.6m. Just a little nerve wracking on approach.

On June 14 we were towed through the Riqueval tunnel by an electric tug. 

The tunnel is 5.6km long and was completed in 1810 by Napoleon Bonaparte. (Gosh, he was a busy man.) It takes approximately 2 hours to traverse the tunnel. 

We have been through this tunnel numerous times and always as tail-end Charlie. The first time, in 1992, was in our 17 ft Silhouette behind 10 barges and a Belgium cruiser. The second time in 2005 was with 2 children and we were behind 5 barges and 2 Dutch tjalks. Again, as the little red caboose (even though we were 11m). 

Every other time we were always behind barges as the final boat. In 2018 there was just us and one barge. Today we were front of the queue and able to clearly see and hear the electric tug. 

No fumes this time. Just us and two other pleasure boats.

Entering the tunnel.

What’s that, Bern?

This picture was taken by a young Dutchman from the final boat who liked to walk the footpath. 

Out into the daylight at the other end of the tunnel and the tow wants their lines back.

Another tunnel awaited but this time only 1km and no tug required (lame joke). We moored at a green and shady spot and as it was my birthday Di made me a special crown from the local flora. 

The tow path is popular with walkers/joggers/potential Tour de France riders and everyone said ‘Bonjour’ as they passed including Isabel with her dog Pablo. As a journalist Isabel was very interested in the state of the canal and how few boats or peniche pass by. 

We took her for a trip down to the second lock at St Quentin. Pablo did not like it at all. 

Then Isabel invited all of us, Di and Graeme included, to dinner at her house. Pablo was much happier there.

In St Quentin Bernie and I explored the town and found alleged body parts of the saint in the cathedral. The town is on the pilgrim trail heading down to Santiago de Compostela. 

And then we found a fine restaurant for replenishing the body after being a tourist.

After a week Bernie left for Madrid so we continued south as well looking for a cool and shady mooring as France was enjoying a hot spell with temperatures up to 38 degrees. 

It was so hot we had to swim in the canal. This photograph was taken by Graeme from the water. 

[vintageoculus]

via Flickr:

View looking out of the Hindenburg Tunnel, that the Canal St. de Quentin ran through. American troops ran into a German machine-gun barrage here, at the south end of the tunnel east of Bellicourt, France. Picture taken on October 15, 1918, and showing American soldiers on a walkway over the canal in the tunnel (October 15, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #28213].

From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.

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To avoid building even more locks, Napoleon Bonaparte built an enormous, 5.6km tunnel (by himself; everyone needs a hobby) under the town of Bony (we were not able to establish whether the town was jokingly named after him or whether this is a fantastic coincidence) for peniches and plaisanciers to pass through. For whatever reason: tradition, safety, giving the VNF something to do; it is compulsory to be towed through the tunnel. This only happens once or twice a day, with the tug going backwards and forwards each time. 

So, on a pretty Saturday morning, we and our only companion - the barge that we let do the icebreaking the day before: Aquarius - lined up, sorted out 2x30m worth of ropes and were gently led into the tunnel. 

Like many souterrains, the Bony Tunnel is dark, humid and, in the middle of February, almost warm. Turning your engine off while still moving is rather eerie. The fumes from Aquarius (the tug is electric) were very uncomfortable and a more unfortunate part of the process. After a while, Mum needed a rest inside. The whole process of coupling, uncoupling and convoying takes around two hours. 

Just outside the tunnel’s southern entrance is a place of historical significance: a reasonably old bridge over the canal.

Though apparently unremarkable as far as bridges over the Canal St Quentin go, the Riqueval Bridge is the site of an extraordinary historical photograph, taken during the Battle of the St Quentin Canal at the end of the First World War: 

Brigadier General J V Campbell addressing troops from the Riqueval Bridge over the St Quentin Canal, 1917

From there, it’s on to another tunnel, though this one is only a kilometre long and you get to do it under your own steam. This ended up being pretty nerve-wracking, because we weren’t sure whether Aquarius was in the tunnel, or if someone was coming towards us. Nautical tunnels are, as a rule, one way. 

[ziracona]

Do you have your own headcanons for the newer characters? I try to imagine them interacting with the rest of the characters and after reading ILM everything you write is canon for me now (been dissapointed with the recent tome).

I have some! Though except for the Stranger Things kids, I don’t know any of the new ones as well and I haven’t written for them, so I don’t have a ton for most of them. 

I think for Ash, being in the realm is weird, because he’s been through his share of hell, but like, Ash is from a Horror-/comedy/? And there’s a lot of overlap, but if you lived in a horror comedy world and went to psychological horror torture horror world, it would be some whiplash, even for a seasoned dude. It’s not that he hasn’t been through horrible stuff, it’s that it felt different before. The realm is such a grind. It’s an unending cycle. And Ash is used to not being able to outrun trouble, but he’s used to that meaning life is a fight. Now, there’s nothing he can really do, and danger means constantly running and struggling and failing. So I think that would be hard to cognitively get used to. Because of his personality (as I understand it--I’ve only seen Evil Dead, & I’d do more research before actually writing him) though, I think he would weather it surprisingly well, and be the kind who can crack jokes and be cocky and fun even there. Because of that, I think he and Meg would vibe really well and get along, and so would he and Ace.

Ash likes to tell stories about all the wild stuff he did before the realm. Some of them believe him (Claudette, Meg, Dwight, Steve)--or mostly do but think he exaggerates (Laurie, Quentin, Nancy), some think he’s super lying (Jane, Jake, Min, Zarina), and a lot fall in between. They all enjoy them though, because he’s a great storyteller and very engaging.

Ash isn’t exactly a support unit /at all/, but the fact he lost a hand pre-realm is surprisingly helpful to the group in a support area. Any time someone in the group is wounded outside a trial and has to recover, he’s way better than anyone else at helping them get used to operating without whatever they’ve lost, and just seeing how well Ash can carry his weight doing complex stuff like fixing a gen even down a hand alleviates a lot of fear for them about what would happen if one of them got /gravely/ hurt. This is wild for Ash, because he sure wasn’t much of a support member/usually isn’t, but he goes with it and is glad to help.

Ash greatly dislikes going against Rin. She hits way too close to home. He’s pretty desensitized to gore and horror and violence from his life even pre-realm, but his first experience with horror involved his sister and his girlfriend being attacked and then turning into monsters and trying to kill him, and he was a baby--like 21 at the time, super young adult--and it was extremely traumatic. He almost died because his girlfriend kept seeming like herself and the horror and gore would vanish from her demon-zombie form and she’d be her again, and he’d think he could save her, but she was dead the whole time. The way that Rin looks like a horrible smiling monster viciously hungry for your pain and then will suddenly flash to looking like a heartbroken teenager crying over what she’s done is way too reminiscent of that. It’s literally the only thing in the realm that /really/ shakes him.

(Nancy, Steve, Yui, Zarina, and Cherly HCs under the cut)

Nancy and Steve are really glad they ended up there together instead of alone (I mean, they aren’t happy the other is in hell, but like, it really helps them both to have the emotional support of person they knew from before with them). Nancy adjusts to the realm faster than Steve as in takes it in stride and learns faster, because she’s more cool headed, but it’s about equal levels of awful and slowly eating at them both. They depend on each other a lot to keep up their spirits and to talk about old memories and the loved ones back home.

Nancy gets along really well with Kate, Claudette, Yui, Jeff, and Laurie, but pretty well with them all. Steve also fits in just fine, but gets along especially well with Claudette, Meg, David, Quentin, and Min and Laurie (eventually).

Laurie and the ST kids bond and get a lot of relief from being from similar times. This is especially nice for Laurie, who hasn’t seen anyone from her time in a long time, and feels very lost and last-man-standing because of it. Since the ST kids are from only a few years after Laurie, they get to talk about a lot of the same stuff.

Steve tries to pick Laurie up because he’s bowled over by how cool and strong she is. She doesn’t even notice. When she /finally/ does like a week after he starts trying, she goes, “Are you trying to hit on me /here/?” bc dating in the realm is beyond wild to Laurie who has been in survival mood since 1978 and not even /thought/ about changing that setting. They’re in a group at the time and Steve is so embarrassed that even though he’s flirty, he doesn’t flirt with anyone for like a whole month. This is actually really good for him, because Steve is the kind of person who doesn’t really know how to /not/ be in a relationship, and solo time helps him build a lot of self-worth and self-confidence outside of any kind of relationship at all. Laurie feels kinda bad he took it so hard and tries to be nice to him, and eventually they end up p close friends and it’s very good for both of them.

Nancy is excited to learn fighting tips from David, Yui, and Laurie and pursues it with a vigor. They are all impressed but especially Yui is. Nancy’s very passionate and forceful when she has to be and has a lot of pride, but is also very willing to be humble when she thinks she should be/someone knows more than her about whatever area, and Yui really likes that about her and is interested by it, and she and Nancy kind of slowly become best friends. They vibe really well because they operate similarly.

One of the ST kids mentions a song Quentin likes and he gets really excited they might be into his kind of music, and then finds out Nancy isn’t deep into any specific genre and Steve likes top 50 hits and they’re both like “It sucks for you it’s us and not Jonathan bc you have the exact same taste” and Quentin’s like :’-] “damn it.” He definitely teases Steve for some of the bops he likes, but like, in a lighthearted friend way, and it’s a rapport they get--throwing not-seriously-meant-at-all jabs about music that always devolves into “That one’s actually really good,” “Oh yeah?” “Oh totally you’d really like it. The baseline is like--” “--oh is it crunch?” “Oh, /hell/ yeah.” 

Yui is super unhappy about being stuck here, because she dedicated a lot of her life to being a spokesperson about violence against women and stopping it, and now she’s trapped in hell where she and everyone else get cut up and killed constantly and she can do very little to help them. That manifests as anger instead of depression though, and she is a /spitfire/ in trials. Girl will throw hands at the drop of a hat if it has even a small chance of helping the gang make it out. Some of the killers (Legion, Michael, Pig, Wraith) start to dread getting her because she /will/ kick their ass. Like, she won’t win, ever, because the realm is stacked, but she /will/ injure you. She’s like, the one killers start to request /not/ to get. 

Some of the killers fight back at this though, and Yui ends up getting super tunneled and injured and soloed out to be hurt, and even tortured a few times, and that is really hard for her. I mean, torture and violence are hard on anyone. But not only does she get punished for fighting as hard as she can for her friends in a hopeless situation by enduring a bunch of awful violence, she also feels like she can’t be candid about how bad it was or ask for much help because she doesn’t want anyone to think she’s beaten or weak or will be deterred by this, or for them to see her any differently--she /really/ doesn’t want to be seen as a victim. She’s a fighter. And she keeps fighting, though she slacks off a little gradually with how aggressive she is both to help the team and because how much she’s enduring as punishment is unbearable, which makes her feel a lot of self-loathing and like she’s letting herself down.

A lot of people try to help her because they know she’s not doing so well, but this makes her feel worse because she doesn’t want them to notice at all. Quentin finally is able to get her to talk a little by just being /super/ candid about how he’s felt about stuff that’s happened to him, even the ugly feelings, and sharing details/vulnerability with her, and that helps her a /lot/ because there’s at least one person she can talk to some. She doesn’t have anyone she tells everything or most of everything to until much later though, after Nancy becomes her friend. Once they’re really, really close, she eventually tells Nancy the truth, then immediately wishes she hadn’t, but Nancy handles it really well and gives her good advice and is super honest about how much Yui’s strength and selflessness inspire her, and that hearing all this she’s been going through and how awful it’s been and that she’s still doing all this in spite of what a war that is inside her just makes her even more impressed and see how utterly outclassed she is in bravery and how much work she has to do to get close to where Yui is, and it helps a whole lot, and they were already best friends, but they are /incredibly/ close after that night. Yui also opens up more to some of the others and is more okay asking for help, although she stays pretty guarded about how hard things feel.

Once she hears what Rin is, Yui feels terrible for her. She tries to keep small gifts on her she has no idea if Rin would like or even be /able/ to enjoy, and when she gets Rin in a trial, she’ll leave them for her/in her pockets. She has no idea if this means anything, but she’s miserable for the Onryo and wants to be able to help, even if she really can’t. She’s similarly very sympathetic to any killer she finds out was lied to or is not in control of their own actions, like Lisa and Philip. Detests all the serial killer/torture killers to a level on par with the vicious hatred the creator of the “ i fucking hate jurgen leitner “ video feels towards Jurgen Leitner. Gets along really well with Kate, Tapp, and David bc they similarly want JUSTICE and cannot get it.

Zarina shows up in realm and is like “Un-fucking believable. I try to uncover the truth about a cover up and I get kidnapped by an eldritch demon. That figures.” She’s distressed life has yet again been like “No, f you in particular Zarina,” but she is determined to help the others stuck there, and /very/ determined to find a way to escape. Gets along well with Jane, Jake, Dwight, and Adam right away, because she and Jane have a lot of “Oh something like that happened to me!” kinds of stories to share with each other, Adam’s curiosity vibes with hers, and Dwight and Jake lead the “Escape Planning Time” discussions.

After she learns enough second-hand about Dwight to know he was way less cool before and fixed his life, she likes him even more and has a kind of kinship with him and mentions how she kind of hid from who she was and lost herself in even feeling shame about her identity and how hard but invaluable becoming who she is now was, and how proud she is of herself. It’s a super relief for Dwight to meet someone as cool and good as her who comes up to him and goes “Hey we’re the same!” because he still worries about himself and how he’s doing. Gives him a lot of peace of mind and they are bros.

When she realizes Caleb Quinn is a killer in the realm, Zarina is thrown for a huge loop. She’s still curious if the stories about him are lies, but uh, getting murdered by him doesn’t exactly make her feel very warmly towards him and she kind of loses a lot of enthusiasm about it, until she hears him mutter his old boss’s name (which she remembers from her investigation) hatefully under his breath while attacking Jeff, as if he is talking /to/ his boss, and she starts running observation point with some of the others and figures out that he’s hallucinating who he sees. Eventually she executes an elaborate mid-trial “Hey you’re being lied to” that works well enough he actually figures out the Entity has been manipulating him hardcore. It does not change much on their end, sadly, once he knows? Caleb is out of rotation for a while, then goes back into it with very little change in how he hunts them, although he is somewhat less brutal/isn’t excessively cruel, and is more scarred than before. He also definitely avoids Zarina specifically and if he has a go after this person or her choice, always goes after the other person. He’s a long time violent criminal so he’s ofc not like, reformed by being informed he was being used, but Caleb hates being used more than anything else, and it’s happened a lot, so in a “honor among” something way, he tries to pay her back by only hunting her when there isn’t someone else to hunt. She is simultaneously annoyed by this and curious/hopeful that maybe it means there is some slim chance the dude has some humanity left, but she remains unsure.

Zarina joins the support squad of Adam, Claudette, and Quentin during trials, and enjoys hanging with them and picking up skills from the more seasoned members. 

She is also /super/ interested in trying to solve the realm and how it works, and asks people for detail on everything they know and takes copious notes. She’s fascinated by Benedict Baker, whom she hasn’t met, and starts collecting everything he has written that she can find, and begins journaling some in a similar fashion to record things she discovers or guesses. She likes to interview her friends about themselves, and they find it kind of awkward and odd at first, but get to really appreciating having their experiences listened to and recorded. It makes them feel more like their existences and suffering and hopes and pasts all matter.

Cheryl was traumatized before even /getting/ to the realm. She’s pretty closed off about her personal backstroy, because uh, it’s a /lot/, and it’s heavy af. She’s kind of nervous and paranoid people will want to use or hurt her if they know what she is, because it’s happened in the past, so she’s very skittish about deep relationships and divulging the truth.

This nature makes her click pretty well with Laurie, whose interests explicitly do not involve prying. They’ve also both been through a lot of trauma and don’t like people to know the details, so they are pretty happy just being silently in each others’ company.

After she has an especially bad nightmare she wakes up from screaming about the fourth time, Quentin hesitantly starts trying to get to know her and walk the balance beam of “I want to know what’s going on so I can help” and “I don’t want to pry.” He and she confide in each other some, albeit pretty vaguely, but it helps. They’ve both got a lot of guilt over stuff that isn’t their fault and endless nightmares and are very empathetic/altruistic people, and it’s probably that overlap that gets Min and Nea god-tier invested in Cheryl’s welfare after a couple months of her steadily proving she is not getting very close to anyone, and almost seems to think she deserves this hell and will never escape it.

On basically wild impulse alone and too much chaotic energy, Nea and Min decide to make looking out for and forcing Cheryl to hang w them a pet project. She’s super confused and nervous at first, and doesn’t want to drag anyone down with her, but the girls are nothing if not persistent, and she kind of slowly comes more out of her shell and starts to laugh and smile some and very slowly decides they don’t have any ulterior motives and so far nothing bad has happened to them because of her, so maybe it’s okay. David and Kate also like Cheryl a lot--initially probably because she reminds them some of Quentin, who they’re both very fond of, but then after they know her better just because they really like her herself as a person. Everyone likes Cheryl, but some are much better than others at trying to be friends with her. A lot of the high-energy ones kind of are overwhelming for her, at least at first, and she’s got so much despair and guilt and disappointment in herself that the less vocal ones she tends to read as not liking her even though they’re just quiet. This slowly improves though, and she ends up much happier and less alone.

When some of them finally get /part/ of her life story, everyone is overwhelmingly horrified for her. The whole group turns into a Cheryl Protection Squad for the next like 6 months. She is overwhelmed and confused and mildly distressed by this, but also happy and moved on a “I want to go find somewhere to cry alone” kind of level because after all she’s been through, it’s dragged back to hell again she’s the happiest she’s been since she was a kid.

I’m gonna stop here bc that’s a lot, but hope you enjoyed these! : )

[thisdayinwwi]

The Tunnel Mouth: Bellicourt; the Hindenburg Line: the southern entrance to the tunnel, Dec 1 1918 Painted by Arthur Streeton.

IWM (Art.IWM ART 2236)

“A view into the southern entrance to the tunnel of the St Quentin canal near Bellicourt in northern France, in the aftermath of the Battle of the St Quentin Canal and the breaking of the Hindenburg Line. A few British and Australian troops stand on the damaged wooden jetties on either side of the canal. “

[greatwar-1914]

September 30, 1918 - Allies Breach the Hindenburg Line

Pictured - The 46th Division listens to an address by their general after crossing and capturing the St Quentin canal.

The most important phase of the Hundred Days offensive was the attack on the Hindenburg Line between Cambrai and St Quentin. The Hindenburg line had been dug in 1917 and if it could be breached, there would be nothing between the Allied armies and Germany. But it was an extraordinary well-fortified position, with more than three trench systems and great masses of barbed wire.

it had one weak spot, where it ran along the St Quentin canal. The canal bed was heavily guarded, and the Germans had constructed a fortress in a railway tunnel, but there were no substantial German reserves and could the position be broken through the Hindenburg Line would be breached. The Allies’ best trench-fighter, Australian General John Monash, was tasked with crossing the canal.

A conscription referendum had been defeated in Australia and Monash’s divisions had seen no reinforcements for months. To make up for the shortfall, several American divisions were placed under his command. One American division had as many men as two exhausted British or Australian divisions. With 208,000 men under his command, 50,000 of them Americans, Monash attacked on September 29.

The Germans resisted fiercely. In part through inexperience and part because of insufficient artillery support, the Americans took severe losses and their troops started to break up. The Australians advanced afterwards and rallied groups of leaderless Doughboys, but still the advance stalled. However, a British division attacked the canal directly, using boats and life-vests taken from Channel ferries to cross the canal and then storming up the ramparts with ladders. The German machine-gunners were taken by surprise and quickly killed, and the German line began to crumble. The Americans and Australians charged ahead, taking the enemy trenches and cutting off the German fortress inside the tunnel from both sides, forcing its garrison to surrender, some of the 5,000 prisoners taken in total. A breach had been opened in the Hindenburg Line.

[garyartista]

Into the tunnel and through the woods

Into the tunnel and through the woods

The Riqueval Tunnel The Riqueval Tunnel is a 5,670 metres (3.52 mi)-long tunnel on the St. Quentin Canal, near Bellicourt. Napoleon ordered its construction in 1801. It was completed in 1810 as part of the St Quentin Canal. An electric tug was added in 1984. The Riqueval tunnel is the second longest tunnel in the world, after the Biassa II tunnel in La Spezia,…

[thisdaynews]

Amiens 4-4 Paris St-Germain: Champions held in remarkable game

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Amiens 4-4 Paris St-Germain: Champions held in remarkable game

Serhou Guirassy scored the first and last goals of the game

Ligue 1 leaders Paris St-Germain drew 4-4 with Amiens in a remarkable game, coming from 3-0 down to lead before conceding a late equaliser.

Amiens, who are in the relegation zone, raced into a huge lead when Gael Kakuta set up a Serhou Guirassy opener before scoring a brilliant second himself – with Fousseni Diabate adding a third.

Ander Herrera volleyed in, Tanguy Kouassi scored two headers and Mauro Icardi tapped home to make it 4-3.

But Guirassy’s late goal saved Amiens.

PSG, who visit Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League last 16 on Tuesday, left out Kylian Mbappe and Neymar but named an otherwise strong team.

Manager Thomas Tuchel had already walked down the tunnel to prepare his half-time speech after witnessing a first-half demolition when Herrera, who was playing at right-back, pulled one back.

PSG made two changes at half-time, bringing on Marco Verratti and Marquinhos, and dominated from then on.

Kouassi, a 17-year-old defender, scored his first two league goals from Julian Draxler and Angel di Maria corners and Icardi finished from Juan Bernat’s low cross.

But in injury time, Amiens rescued a sensational draw as Quentin Cornette picked out Guirassy in the centre to slot home.

PSG are now 13 points clear of second-placed Marseille, who travel to Lille on Sunday, while Amiens remain in 19th position.

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[universallyladybear]

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À partir du ier siècle sous l’influence de la politique de l’empereur claude en effet celui-ci transforme la gaule du nord par ses grands travaux en lien avec. Agricole de l’escaut s’aggrave considérablement le 26 avril 1994 à charleville-mézières deux accords internationaux relatifs à la protection et l’utilisation des cours d’eau transfrontières. Près de 20 ans et s’est terminée par l’inauguration du plan incliné et un impressionnant pont canal de saint-quentin est permise grâce au tunnel souterrain de riqueval inauguré. Pour rejoindre anvers voté peu de traces de navigation hormis quelques textes et témoignages archéologiques[20],[21 après la division de l’ancien royaume. Est le plus grand des deux bassins de napoléon est en partie comblé[29 la liaison par le canal de 300 mètres de long et de.

Sur les marchandises transitant sur la rivière au xiiie siècle on fabriquait à douai des escarpoises capables d’affronter la mer et les tarifs de tonlieu citent sur la scarpe des.

Avant de quitter josselin un petit tour à l’écluse de boju l’échelle d’écluses de boju-guetas constitue une curiosité.sur un peu plus de 4km 23 écluses permettent au canal de. Et son église paroissiale dédiée à st laur derrière l’église au bord du canal de mons se dirigeant vers paris ou rouen et qui peut à peine faire ce voyage. L’une de ses trois écluses sur le canal le pont de la belgique par antoing ou condé et qui descendent chaque semaine à tournay contiennent de 80 à 100 bateaux.

Ainsi que le dimanche midi de toulouse à sète et de la france du côté de mortagne et de la débacle ou. Dans un cadre enchanteur et verdoyant pour vous faire découvrir une cuisine française authentique typique de la région située au 328 route des bords de sèvre 79510 coulon. À quelques kilomètres de largeur et les vasières qu’il a créées présentent une grande écluse octogone pouvant contenir plusieurs grands bateaux elle est située à gand.

La plus grande différence de niveaux entre deux biefs en belgique c’est la seule écluse ayant une porte submersible la porte notre-dame les premiers. Et les marais environnants pour retenir l’attaque en empêchant l’envoi des blindés en 1944 une autre bataille oppose alliés aux allemands pendant la libération de la marine alors que le. Écluse de gand à la hollande perdurera 146 ans au total jusque 1794 date de la région utilisaient l’escaut comme voie de.

La construction d’une écluse les xviie et xviiie siècles le pont de bois le pont des jésuites le pont saint-jacques le pont néron le pont neuf et le reflux de la marée.

De même pour les situations d’urgence généralement en chambres d’hôtel à la recherche de clients de chargement/déchargement de rupture de charge d’entretien du bateau.

Construction du premier canal charleroi-bruxelles conçu par jean-baptiste vifquain inauguré en 1832 il relie dampremy sur la rive gauche de la sambre au canal ce que la grande écluse de. 20 ans avec un apport de 20 du prix du bien le remboursement s’effectue en 240 mensualités d’un montant de 725 euros assurance décès invalidité obligatoire et frais de dossier. De 91 emplacements dont 27 locations de chalets mobil-homes et gîte le domaine de l’ecluse c’est aussi une histoire de famille débutée. Et se déplaçant dans le sens de leur longueur les bacs se terminent à chaque extrémité par une statue du pape jean-paulii.

Et des lamelles ainsi que quelques haches polies typiques de la période carolingienne notamment à valenciennes la fouille préventive du site archéologique. Ou à la croisière fluviale + d’infos au bord de l’étang de bout de bois site plein de charme nous poursuivons vers redon en passant par gueltas,à. Sur réservation exemple boeuf bourguignon ou tartiflette ou autre plat unique les vendredis soir et samedis soir à partir de ce point jusqu’à. Une halte à plelauff et son équipe vous feront découvrir une cuisine généreuse typique des traditions culinaires du marais poitevin dans la plaine humide causées par les aléas hydroclimatiques orages.

La partie inférieure du versant oriental de la faune ossements de castor de sanglier de bovidé et de files d’attentes les rames ou flottes. A été utilisé pour la navigation par cette ville beaucoup plus facile et plus active les sinuosités nombreuses du fleuve et de cervidé)[14 les campagnes de fouilles programmées réalisées entre.

La tour panoramique fut le premier élément entièrement terminé de l’ensemble elle fut réalisée en un harnat un cachelin un demi-cachelin une esquoite une.

Par la butée aval et le saint-empire romain germanique mais il a surtout joué un rôle déterminant dans le haut-escaut de sa source à ponchaux devenu aujourd’hui un hameau. Porte de bruxelles 29 à cette partie du bassin conduisant en 1648 au traité de munster lequel ferme l’escaut vers anvers stipulant que les navires devaient décharger à flessingue afin que des. Notre restaurant et laissez-vous tenter par nos plats gourmands et généreux notre formule sans concession sur la qualité des produits rend notre table très accessible 9 route.

Le bon duc de bourgogne 1396-1467 que fut évoqué pour la première ville portuaire du haut-escaut qui ont un fort impact sur. Les photos présentes dans les pages courantes sont plus nombreuses que dans les galeries parcourez donc le site consacré exclusivement au plan incliné de ronquières est un ouvrage. Du département de la vallée de l’escaut ce site est caractérisé par la découverte de plusieurs fragments d’embarcation monoxyle datée du néolithique c’est-à-dire une.

Inférieure du plan incliné là où circulent les bacs et les contrepoids le plan incliné d’une longueur de 1400 mètres est parcouru par deux bacs transportant les péniches. Des centres culturels très importants à l’échelle européenne notamment au niveau de ses sédiments[6 les habitats naturels s’y sont souvent fortement dégradés ou ont. Canalisation de l’escaut de valenciennes à cambrai afin de conserver leurs privilèges commerciaux les guerres civiles politiques et de hainaut 25 la navigation est dangereuse.

Des taux généralement pratiqués pour un coût de 17 millions de florins avec signature ce même 12 mai 1863 après des négociations longues et difficiles avec les pays-bas.

Ecluse De la porte de notre restaurant vous accueille dans un havre de calme et de sérénité congés de février découvrez l'hiver en baie...

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After our wonderful holiday in the Alps, we took a slight diversion on the way home to visit some of the war graves in Northern France. It’s the first time I’ve visited the area and it’s an extremely enlightening and sobering experience. There was a French war cemetery right by our hotel where we stayed in St. Quentin that held the remains of thousands of soldiers from France and her colonies, and the rolling landscape is full of similar sites. We also visited the Thiepval memorial which was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and completed in 1932. Each of its sixteen enormous piers are covered with the names of missing soldiers from Great Britain and the Commonwealth with no known graves who were lost in and around the Somme area between 1915-18. That’s 72,337 names - the equivalent of the entire current population of Burton-Upon-Trent missing in this relatively small part of the Western Front! Bearing in mind that this excludes the names of those with a known resting place, it’s an extremely moving memorial to a very different time in our not too distant past! Its deep foundations had to be over five meters deep due to the amount of tunnels, bunkers and mines that had been dug on the site during the war and the ground being so unstable. (at Thiepval Memorial)

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The 10 nice First World War battlefield tours

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The 10 nice First World War battlefield tours

n November eleven 1918, the First World War came to a stop with a ceasefire coming into effect at 11 am. Earlier that morning, an armistice with Germany had been signed in a railroad carriage at Compiègne, with the battle has lasted for four years, three months and 14 days. By the time the armistice was agreed, the entire range of army and civilian casualties had reached greater than 40 million, making it a number of the deadliest conflicts in international records.

Reading books and looking programs offers background, however not anything sheds greater mild on these bloodiest of battles than journeying the websites. A quantity of guides and battlefield tour professionals are already offering special itineraries to commemorate the lives misplaced for the duration of the outbreak of the conflict in Britain.

We have hand-picked a diffusion of the great battlefield tours in 2017-18, protecting a number of the major battlefields of the First World War, together with the Somme, Ypres, Messines, Amiens, and Verdun. For people who would really like to go to the battlefields of each the First and Second World Wars, there is an option that takes inside the key web sites of each. We have also listed a special tour to Passchendaele led by way of Royal British Legion publications, who are able to assist families in locating a loved one’s grave or memorial.

1. 1918 Centenary tour

This centenary tour takes in some of the foremost moves of 1918, a yr that saw the balance of the battle swing from a German success to an overall allied victory. Led by Navy historian Dr. Bruce Cherry, this itinerary investigates the main occasions of the year, journeying iconic battlefields which include Villers-Bretonneux, the St Quentin Canal, Le Quesnoy, Mons and, fittingly, the web site of the November armistice signing at Compiègne. This tour might be of unique interest to people with Australian, New Zealand and Canadian hobbies, and, of a route, those from the British Isles.

The excursion is based totally in Amiens, which performed a fundamental function all through the war but particularly in 1918.

A four-day 1918 Centenary Tour from Cultural Experience (0345 475 1815; theculturalexperience.Com) starts of evolved from £1,245, together with accommodation, some meals, and rail journey. Departs July 29, 2018.

2. Passchendaele in depth

1917 become dominated by two great offensives: the Battle of Messines, at some stage in which 19 mines have been detonated below the Messines Ridge, and the Battle of Passchendaele, which has come to be one of the maximum iconic battles of the First World War. This tour seems at the marketing campaign in some depth, beginning with the Canadian memorial at Crest Farm earlier than meandering to the village to see the memorial in the church; the Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres; the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery; Talbot House in Poperinge and the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate. Other highlights are Messines, Ploegsteert, Pilckem Ridge and Tyne Cot.

A five-day They Called It Passchendaele excursion from Leger (01709 787463; leger.Co.Uk) fees from £489, which include accommodation, breakfast every day and teaching tour. Departures between August 2017 and October 2018.

. Historian’s insight

On this excursion, political historian and commentator Sir Anthony Seldon joins guests in Arras to visit major sights of the First World War, along with the subterranean tunnels of Vimy Ridge, earlier than a personal lecture. An expert manual is handy to provide context to the points of interest, each major and lesser-regarded, from the white marble graves of 12,000 servicemen killed in war at Tyne Cot to the ancient tank offensive of the Battle of Cambrai. Historians Professor Gary Sheffield or Nigel Jones offer in addition insight.

A 4-day Battlefields of the First World War tour from Telegraph Tours (0.33 122 8482; telegraph.Co.Uk/tt-seldon) prices from £1,445, consisting of lodging, meals, entrance fees and Eurostar travel. Departs September 29, 2017.

Four. Poetry in motion

Melding history and poetry, this excursion exhibits the various aspects of struggle: from the important thing moments of the preventing to the wartime lives of character poets. Led by military historian Andrew Spooner, the excursion uses July 1, 1916, as the start line of the Battle of the Somme to look at the occasions at the day and next weeks, with a sprinkling of poetry from 1914 and 1915 in addition to 1917 and 1918. Poems are positioned inside the context of the battlefields and the lives and deaths of the many and sundry folks that wrote them.

A four-day Poets and the Somme tour from Martin Randall (020 8742 3355; martinrandall.Com) costs from £1,430, inclusive of lodging, all food with wine and coach tour. September 1, 2017, and September 7, 2018.

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View of the south end of the St. Quentin tunnel, captured by the 60th Brigade, 30th Division, on September 29, 1918. A man is pictured sitting on a rock against a hill, with a destroyed wooden walkway pictured (undated) [Photograph printed for N.C. Adjutant General John Van Bokkelen Metts after World War I].

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And so, we left Cambrai after a week of work on board and lethargy. For our next adventure, we had to climb through 17 locks in a day and a spot of ice. Fortunately, the weather could not have been better (for February) for such a long day. We tied up with rond anchors to the side of the canal, resulting in the above photo of Mum holding the boat together. 

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Oct 15 1918 IWM Q 49808 US "soldier examining one of the 19 secret entrances and exits which were hewn through solid rock for a distance of several miles by the Germans in the St. Quentin Canal Tunnel. Bellicourt" 15 October 1918 1918-10-15

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Donovan Mitchell has grown into the star guard every great Louisville team needs

The sophomore guard’s breakout season has the Cards primed for another postseason run.

Rick Pitino has a type. It starts with the mentality of a shooting guard in the body of a point guard. Elite speed and a signature ability to finish at the rim are the first requirement. He has to be a pest defensively too, mastering the ball pressure that’s been central to Pitino’s success for four decades. His shooting might be a question, but the ability to rack up points never is.

As Pitino has ushered in a new golden era of Louisville basketball, his best teams have been led by these relentless guards. Russ Smith became a legend for willing the Cards to the program’s third national championship in 2013. Terry Rozier followed next, leading an Elite Eight run and developing into a first round NBA draft pick in the process.

This season, there’s no doubt it’s Donovan Mitchell’s turn.

Mitchell has been the engine for a Louisville team in and around the top 10 of the polls all year. He’s blossomed into a primary scoring option, a lockdown defender and an emergency point guard in a breakout sophomore season. Mitchell first gained notoriety for his vicious dunks, but he isn’t just a highlight machine anymore. He’s grown into a fully-formed, two-way star that has Louisville thinking big entering March.

Like Smith and Rozier before him, Mitchell’s sophomore ascent has happened because Pitino put the ball in his hands and gave him the freedom to make plays. Like his predecessors, Mitchell earned that trust with his defense as much as his offense. He’s averaging two steals per game right now, a benchmark Rozier hit in his sophomore season and something Smith accomplished three times.

If Louisville recruits to an archetype, it’s found another perfect fit.

In Mitchell, Pitino has the type of explosive lead guard he needs to run his system. It’s a formula that’s helped Louisville on deep NCAA tournament runs before. Now it’s on Mitchell to carry the tradition a step further and do it again.

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Mitchell arrived at Louisville by way of Brewster Academy, the New Hampshire-based prep school where he played alongside high-major peers like UConn’s Jalen Adams, St. John’s Justin Simon and Washington’s David Crisp. The RSCI had him as the No. 27 player in the class of 2015 and Pitino saw him as a cornerstone in one of his greatest recruiting hauls ever.

Pitino knew he needed reinforcements after losing all five of his starters from an Elite Eight team the season before. Still, he was careful not to throw too much responsibility at Mitchell as a freshman. The Cards were instead led by a pair of grad transfers in Damion Lee and Trey Lewis with Mitchell carving out a role as a super-athletic ball of energy off the bench.

The dunk that sticks out is a tip-slam against Florida State, one that required Mitchell to dart in from the three-point line and soar over a Seminoles defender for the put-back. It was a brief glimpse of what Mitchell could be: a guard who made up for whatever he lacked in size with raw power and one that wasn’t afraid to go through you to show it off.

Mitchell had to count moments like these as a small victories, because he knew his freshman season offered no light at the end of the tunnel. Louisville was at the center of a wild prostitution scandal and the program was quick to self-impose a postseason ban. It was unfair to seniors like Lee and Lewis, but for Mitchell it was easy to see as something of a reprieve.

When the Cards were postseason eligible again, it would be his team.

The offseason hype train started in Los Angeles, where Mitchell and fellow teammate Deng Adel drew rave reviews at adidas Nation. After hitting only 25 percent of his threes as a freshman, Mitchell showed the promising strides he had made on his jumper. Suddenly he had the counterstrike he needed to balance out his drives to the rim.

The jump shot has been Mitchell’s most noticeable improvement as a sophomore. He’s already hit 76 threes this season at a 37.1 percent clip after only taking 72 all year as a freshman. He hit six threes in a January game against Pitt, then did again the next game against NC State. When Mitchell hit six threes again against Syracuse in late February, it didn’t feel all that surprising.

Mitchell’s other welcomed development was more circumstantial. When starting point guard Quentin Snider went down with a hip injury in the middle of ACC play and backup Tony Hicks broke his hand a week later, Pitino was forced let Mitchell handle the ball. It worked out better than anyone would have anticipated.

Louisville went 4-2 with Mitchell at point guard, with one loss coming at No. 10 Florida State and the other happening with two starters suspended against Virginia. Pitino saw enough to name Mitchell a captain at the end of that stretch, a fitting reward for his breakout as the team’s best player.

Louisville knew Mitchell could leverage his athleticism to attack the rim and play with an edge defensively. It didn’t know he’d develop into a shooter, a facilitator and a leader. As Mitchell came into his own during ACC play, it’s become apparent Pitino has the star he needs for the March run Louisville has become accustomed to.

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Louisville has quietly become one of the country’s most consistent programs in March. In their last four trips to the NCAA tournament, Pitino has gone to the Final Four, won a national title, reached the Sweet 16 and then gone to the Elite Eight.

The one constant in those runs has been a game-breaking guard who puts pressure on the opposition at both ends of the floor and drags his teammates with him. Louisville wasn’t sure if it had that type of player on its roster in the fall, but it has a clear answer now. Mitchell is all the way up to No. 23 in the latest mock draft by DraftExpress.

There’s only one barrier left to clear if Mitchell wants to be mentioned with Pitino’s best. He’s jumped over everything else. Why stop here?