My View. Let's See Yours

[Boathook]

The view I presently have, is of buildings, grey skies and a patch of grass. It tipped down with rain last night and is still trying to rain and the forecast is not good on the rain front either.
I could post a picture but we will all find it depressing !

 

[kingsebi]

Last week

 

[Bouba]

This was the other day….unfortunately it was only a car park

 

[kingsebi]

One advantage of living at anchor, not so many carparks around

 

[Bouba]

One advantage of living at anchor, not so many carparks around

In mitigation....it was the port car park

 

[kingsebi]

Haha. Salty carpark

 

[GEM43]

No car park…..

 

[dansaskip]

Disappointed that so many posts without the obligatory bottle of beer or glass of tipple so to redress the balance

 

[cherod]

Recently

 

[RunAgroundHard]

Last weekend, moonlight, likely last sail of the season.

 

[cherod]

Is long gone

 

[creeks]

Just another sunset

 

[Gustywinds]

Well, I was hoping to get a nice pic today but its pissing down so I'm gonna cheat and use one from the last time I was here. The upside is today I get to look around and not stand drinking champagne while listening to a Frenchman telling me how wonderful Total were.

 

[creeks]

Just another sunset

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and another

 

[Bouba]

Well, I was hoping to get a nice pic today but its pissing down so I'm gonna cheat and use one from the last time I was here. The upside is today I get to look around and not stand drinking champagne while listening to a Frenchman telling me how wonderful Total were.

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How do you manage to moor up so close to the action ?

 

[Gustywinds]

How do you manage to moor up so close to the action ?

Who said the view was from the mooring? No, the Port de Plaisance is surrounded by trees and bushes so not a very exciting view but nicely tranquil and sheltered. About a 10 minute walk to the palace which is what the pic is and a beautful place it is, well worth a visit.
Tonight's' view out is similarly tree-lined but a commercial quayside so its bit bumpier. Tomorrow we go see where Mr Van Gogh topped himself and similar cultural stuff.

 

[Gustywinds]

And no, @Bouba, we aren’t moored in the cemetery, in fact we aren’t even moored in Auvers any more as an officious Frenchman woke us at 6:30 to tell us we weren’t allowed to moor on the commercial quay despite what the tourist office told us. So we are now in a proper halte nautique in Pontoise, a 30min bus ride away.

 

[Bouba]

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And no, @Bouba, we aren’t moored in the cemetery, in fact we aren’t even moored in Auvers any more as an officious Frenchman woke us at 6:30 to tell us we weren’t allowed to moor on the commercial quay despite what the tourist office told us. So we are now in a proper halte nautique in Pontoise, a 30min bus ride away.

You’d think that there would be some sunflowers

 

[Gustywinds]

You’d think that there would be some sunflowers

There are, top left. We did think about bringing some. He’s got his wheatfield, albeit without crows, right behind him. The whole town is full of framed prints of his paintings next to the things that they are of. One thing I didn’t know is that the priest of the famous church refused to bury him because he was a suicide.

 

[Davy_S]

That reminds me of my friend Harry, he had a simple grave.