9 Feb 2012

The frozen Canal du Midi

I was talking to someone today who said an old man in her village had only ever seen the Canal du Midi freeze over three times in his lifetime. It’s certainly frozen now.

At Le Somail. Someone's thrown a brick onto the ice (bottom rhs)
- to check the strength of it I guess!


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