Hi all 👋🏻

With this post I’m joining in at the Wednesday Walk challenge and Make me Smile challenge. That are hosted by @tattoodjay and @elizacheng every week on Wednesday.

‼️Have a look: Here in the Wednesday Walk Community if you want to join in! or at @tattoodjay ’s Post here: Wednesday Walk a Visit to Allens Pond!
It tells you also the rules of joining in, at the end of his post 😁

As some of you know, I have been in Paris, France 🇫🇷 for the last 5 days… so I wasn’t that active and I sure have not looked through my taken photographs yet 😉😎 hehehe 🤭

Our walks were between 14 and 21km everyday 💪🏻 And were fun at every moment, we saw a lot and had plenty of adventures!
During our walk yesterday I came across something pretty cool. When a canal boat ⛴ went through the canal locks…. This was on the Canal Saint-Martin and around the Parc de Valmy and Henri-Christiné.
I wanted to share this experience with you today as I walk around the canal and show the photographs to you, seen through my eyes. Like you are with me along the way. 😊

Photos are all taken with my iPhone on 5 July 2022

The location of the canal Saint-Martin and the Parc on Google maps you find here, see the yellow star ⭐️ :

A little bit more information about canal locks you find In this website!

It states:
”A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways. The distinguishing feature of a lock is a fixed chamber in which the water level can be varied; whereas in a caisson lock, a boat lift, or on a canal inclined plane, it is the chamber itself (usually then called a caisson) that rises and falls.

Locks are used to make a river more easily navigable, or to allow a canal to cross land that is not level. Later canals used more and larger locks to allow a more direct route to be taken.”

About the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris you find more information In this website!

It states:
”The Canal Saint-Martin is a 4.6 km (2.86 mi) long canal in Paris, connecting the Canal de l'Ourcq to the river Seine. Over nearly half its length, between the Rue du Faubourg du Temple and the Place de la Bastille, it was covered, in the mid-19th century, to create wide boulevards and public spaces on the surface.
The canal is drained and cleaned every 10–15 years, and it is always a source of fascination for Parisians to discover curiosities and even some treasures among the hundreds of tons of discarded objects.”


Source!
”Location of the three Paris canals (zooming on the Saint-Martin and Saint-Denis), from the Inland Waterways of France map by David Edwards-May, publ. Imray, 2012”

Let’s start our walk for today… are you coming with me?

We start walking along the canal one side, going over a few bridges ending up walking along the other side, crossing some more bridges and so on. 😉

Our view…
Next to us we find a dog park and a tent 🏕
A little bit further we decide to start wandering under the trees as they cool us down and bring lots of shade. It’s 26 degrees Celsius at this point. Lovely warm weather! So the cooler and fresher air is welcome 😁 Parc Eugène Varlin.
One of the locks.
Further along we are crossing another bridge. Pont de la rue Louis Blanc.
We find a heart ❤️ on the ground…
As we walk along… let’s decide to go and sit down on a bench… and watch the world go by. Just for a moment. To rest and see what is happening around us.
A little detail of the railing in front of us. 😁
Looking at the lock from the canal.
Looking behind us, we see lots of trees 🌳
BUT… WHAT DO WE HEAR?
Suddenly I hear WATER… sounds more like a waterfall. 😎 We jump up, and hurry a little bit further. And we see, the lock is releasing water into a lower part of the canal 🤓
Look what a force… at this time I didn’t realise why this was happening 😁 but it was pretty cool. Don’t you think 😉
Than more water is being released and it goes over the top of the lock now. Like a waterfall.
Zooming out a bit so you can see more 😎
And it stops again…
Zooming out a little bit more.

Still the bottom part is releasing water.
But look! Look in the distance. We see a canal boat. Do you see it?
It is getting closer. 😁 how cool… we were here in the right time, on a bench relaxing and now a canal boat with tourists are coming by. Let’s watch how it works. 🤓
We see the boat getting closer to the lock.
Bit by bit…
And the lock behind the boat is closing now. DO YOU SEE IT?
Now the lock behind it is closed… this part needs to be lowered.
The the lock in front of us is releasing more water.
And more water… the boat is going down if you look closely.
Looking to the left we see the basin in front of us is filling up.
And the boat is going down lower…
When this basin if full and level with the next part and the boat too… we see 😁
It is filling up well.
Now the lock is slowly opening.
Little by little…
The water stopped rushing… all level now.
Gates opening more.
And the lock is open and the boat is coming through now.
See how low the boat is now in comparison with just before they released the water through the locks.
The name of this canal boat trip…
It passes by…
As it is pretty cool to see the next part, the boat going under the bridge, let’s go and rush to the other side of the bridge.
We are crossing the road… going further and we see we can walk down next to the canal. Let’s do that.
Come hurry up.

We see the water already being released in this part.
As we walked quickly further down and now back again… our views. Well done you! we made it.

We walk a bit further to have a better picture.


This will do. Just in time 🤩😎💃🏻
The lock is opening.
A bit further and we see the boat again.
As the lock is all the way open the boat is going under the bridge and through the lock. 😎
There it is…

(Next comes the first photograph of this post.)

And here we see the boat getting all the way out.
Passing by slowly.
The fisher man is waiting until the boat passes by with throwing in his line again.
A slightly wider shot.
As we walk back up again… I take one last photograph for you.

And that’s all for today! Stay tuned for more Paris related content soon 👋🏻😁😉 I will go through my photographs in the next days 🥰 and tell you also about my experiences and how I thought about Paris.

Until next time 😎
Hope you enjoyed my photos of this walk around the canal of Paris. Thank you for looking and reading 😊 🙏🏻 Really much appreciated!
Here is the first little post of Paris @joetunex, @wrestlingdesires 😊 more will follow…

Any questions or comments, let me know. Always happy to help.
Have a great Wednesday all 😎
Grtz Jackie

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