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When we stayed at  Camping St Paul in Lyons-la-Foret we drove to see the locks: Ecluses d'Amfreville. There are two locks, a dam and a power station. The locks were built in 1887 on the right side of the Seine. One lock is  220 meters long and 17 meters wide. The other is 141 meters long and 12 meters wide, so they are rather big. The locks are the last ones before the sea. They are situated 163 km from the sea and 202 km from Paris. The locks takes about. 40 ships a day  - 15000 a year. They are  open 24 /24 with the exception of 6 Holidays. There is also a 235 meter long dam with 6 openings  and a power station. The power station was built in 1991  - 8000 kW. There is a pedestrian / cycle bridge crossing the Seine with the finest view to the locks, dam and power station and up and down the Seine. Danish

Quercus palustris (North America) - Pin oak 5-6 km outside Lyons-la-Foret is an arboretum with  60 different species of trees planted in areas dependent on their continent of origin (Europe, Asia, America and also an area with trees from  the Mediterranean). There were also 40 different species of trees from the local area. Catalpa bignonioides (North America) - Indian Bean Tree  The arboretum is freely available and all trees are clearly marked. Liriodendron tulipifera (North America) - Tulip Tree  It was a fine place for a stroll and it took a couple of hours. Araucaria araucana (South America) - Monkey Puzzle Tree) There were gravel paths around each "continent", and also a folder with numbers and names regarding each group of trees, and furthermore suggestions for the walks enabling you to experience the whole area. Araucaria araucana - Monkey Puzzle Tree Nothofagus obliqua (South America) Patagonian oak Pinus griffithi...

As well as there were many beautiful half timbered houses in  Hann. Münden, there were also many beautiful doors . Here are some of the ones I photographed for my "collection". The rest can be seen in my   album - indgange - entrances Danish

Home again from vacation in France and Germany and now with the possibility to be on the internet again. The last two days it was  impossible  to up- and download pictures. Today it was possible to try LIDL's game, and I won 12 small deserts (or that is what I think it is). I tried yesterday to upload this picture from  Falkensteinsee, but it wasn't possible, so here it comes: Danish

My English version of my blog is temporarily on hold due to very slow internet connection. Making the Danish version is time consuming enough, and not that easy when I have to use my mobile The foto is from Lyons-la-Foret.

The cranes are flying south now. They are on their way to southern Spain or North Africa. Yesterday a flock of about 20 was passing our house. Luckily they communicate a lot, so you catch sight of them. In 2012 we visited   Hornborgasjön  to see cranes. It was a great experience to watch about 20.000 cranes gathered, and impressing when they changed places between their eating / dancing place and their night quarters. Each morning you could watch them coming back in thousands. Last year we went to Pulken in spring to see the cranes. Not as many as at  Hornborgasjön, but closer to home - shorter drive. Danish

The Chalk cliff is 1 km long and  rises  80 meters above the Vezere river. It is made of five terraces , and was hollowed out by the river, frost and ice in the glacial age 60 million years ago. The cliff offered shelter to the hunter-gatherers and was possibly first inhabited by the Neanderthal people 50000 B.C., and later by the  Cro-Magnon people 25000 B.C. People have lived here in Bronze - Iron  and Middle Ages until 1588 when the place was destroyed during the Wars of Religion. The greatest period was the Middle Ages where bishop Frotaire of Périgueux decided to built a fortress to protect the inhabitants against  Norman invasions, but already in the Bronze Age it many people lived here. Winch Safe The great staircase leading to the fifth terrace. Jail Kitchen Model of the site as it may have looked at the end of the Middle Ages.  The place is classified as historical Monument and the valley is ...

Jardin de Marqueyssac  is situated only 1½ km from  Camping la Cabane It is a fantastic area with garden and park where  150.000 boxwoods are pruned twice a year with hand-shears, and the finest shapes occurs. The garden and park is situated 130 meter above the river. The cliff and calcareous soil makes growing circumstances special. The cliffs will absorb heat in daytime in summer and release it at night, and the river provides  haze and fog in winter and  thereby shelter the plants from the frost. That makes it possible for plants that normally grows in warmer climate to thrive here. There are various sinuous walks - more  than 6 km - and some with wonderful views to the valley. Here different pictures  from the park: And the view to another fantastic village in Perigord:  La Roque-Gageac : Danish