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weather was more than dodgy this sunday, but having missed the chance to get out on saturday due to No1 daughter being at home, I was determined to get out despite the weather. It wasn't cold (12 deg C) but heavy cloud cover and a number of fronts moving east or north east. As soon as I'd fed the animals kids, I headed for a tiny hamlet I know on the canal cos it's very pretty and gave me a turning point about 1h30 south of here, just in the northern limits of the Morvan and in a wee hidden curve of the canal at the top of a 16 lock flight and just before the deep cut leading to the 3 tunnels at the summit. I didn't know if I'd make it that far due to the weather, but that was the aim. I took the smaller back roads all the way there dodging the rain showers, I had a mooch round when I ot there, 9 houses, 1 bloke fishing. stunningly pretty, but the light really didn't do it justice. Great place to spend a quiet week end on a boat after slogging up the 16 locks though. as I started back, there was a black storm front coming at me from the south west so I took a faster route northwards, outrunning it to Clamecy where there's a coffee/ bakery run by an arab bloke who is open 364 days a year ( only place in the area that I knew would be open on a sunday). I sat and had a coffee and a pair of 2pain au chocolat" whilst the rain aquall went through, gave it a 15 minute headstart and set of behind it. all told, about 185km, in under 3 hours riding, quite a high moving average for me From the bridge at Port Brulé looking south towards the tunnels ( odd unintended effect in the photo that seem sto have distorted the rear wheel...) looking North towards the lock flight and you can see the WHOLE village. the route went something like this: