I have been spending time on You Tube, looking at various canal trips. I have always wanted to do Burgundy, like you were saying, Tom, with chef and AI! However, we have a friend who ran a sailboat here for 20 years, then bought a Sea Ray and brought it down single-handed from the states. I think he is probably over-qualified, but I won't have to mess with the locks. LOL.

Eva: We have been looking at the Canal du Midi, too. I heard that the famous trees are all dying and it's not as pretty as it was once?

And Tom, we would probably be spending a couple more weeks, some in Paris, then maybe Switzerland? Or back to Italy? Or another part or France? <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Wink.gif" alt="" />