This summer I went on a little cruise in the canals between Nantes and Brest in Bretagne, France. Walking along the canal I saw the prows of a row of overgrown boats peeking out of the treeline on the other bank. A long detour (through goat pastures) brought us there. Here are images: https://imgur.com/a/7IPRS.
I am very curious as to what they are. Feel free to look at the images and give any knowledge you have.
They are riveted and all are missing the aft section. Trees have grown through/around them, earth partly covers their bottoms, but the metal show almost no rust; they're in very good condition. We counted probably 14 original boats; 12 remained, 2 had been removed.
The metal felt unusually lightweight and undamaged by the elements; my first guess was aluminum but I doubt that if they were made in the early-to-mid 1900s (expensive). My second guess would be galvanized steel. They seem roomy, shallow, robust, perhaps a sort of canal or landing boat.
The final image in the imgur link shows the best match i managed to find while browsing the internet, a french pre-war military river boat, but I only found that one image of one, of quite old quality, so it is hard to make certain matches of features on the boats.
The location is here, very close to the lock that connects the Vilaine river to the canals. https://goo.gl/maps/TVAd75An49J2
I am not even from the US.
In many shows it is often depicted that soldiers would seize captured items from enemy forces. In keeping with SPR and WW2, this is often what would become Nazi memorabilia or flags. However, these can be small items such as a knife, which can be readily holstered, if not actually used in combat. However, an infantrymen carrying around a satchel full of soil seems a little excessive. Where would this be stored if not kept on his persons?
First time I've ever rented one of these, but for some reason I've always wanted to. I'll be in the south of France for the last week of October, near Bordeaux in the Aquitaine region. Some questions:
-will there be trees changing color?
-what should I definitely know about renting a canal boat...things to bring, things not to bring, etc
-is it really worth it? The boat costs about €2000 for a week....would I be wiser to just rent a car and stay in local accommodations?
-any MUST SEE things in that region?
I'd love to hear from anyone who has BTDT.
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> PARIS, July 22 - French television Canal France International has expressed 'regret' that a hard-core pornographic film was broadcast around the Arab world in place of a scheduled children's show.
> The mistaken Saturday afternoon broadcast had provoked the Arabsat satellite consortium to pull all Canal France programming off the air.
> French Foreign Ministry spokesman Jacques Rummelhardt told a news briefing today, 'We share in the high feelings prompted in Saudi Arabia and more widely in the Arab world.
> ' He explained that CFI had no 'role in broadcasting such a program' and that, instead, the error occurred at France's Telecom's state communications agency.
> The agency feeds French television programming to many different satellites, including Arabsat, which broadcasts to many different Arab nations.
> He said the scheduled children's program was erroniously replaced by France Telecom with private French station pornographic film destined for clients in the Pacific.
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