Our Location

	Another day with low water! We wait for the end of the lunch break of the lock-keeper and NO, we didn't have any wine for lunch! The reason we are tied up like this (aft of the barge not aligned with the shore), is that there is not enough water in the canal to let us get (safely) close to shore. So we tie up the bow with two line and the front line tight to keep our aft in the deep.
	The red mark - 1m35cm - this is how deep our rudder and screw go. Here we have definitely not enough water to moor safely.
	Our night mooring in Sauzens. A nice pier with deep water.
	Ed takes over BBQ duties - his family calls him the `Grill God' - so lets see what he does with Merguez (a local French sausage with Moroccan heritage).
	Sunflowers to extract oil and
	grapes, to extract Appellation Cabardes Contrôlé, dominate the landscape.
	In the background the Black Mountains. The main feeder canals for the Canal du Midi originate from reservoirs in these mountains. When we visited the mountains we realized why the canal is so low. The reservoirs are nearly empty and the hills are dry.
	Sauzens was first mentioned in 1292 and the parish was owned for over 500 years by the same family.
	Houses and walls surround the center of the small village.