A canal/river/house boat on the Canal Saint-Martin. The sign on the side of the boat that says "caviste bord a bord" translates to "wine cellar". Perhaps this boat serves as a mobile wine cellar. You can see the wine barrel on board.
These boats are interesting in that they seem to be pretty old and look to have been modified a few times so they can be lived on. This one has to be short enough to get through the old locks on the canal and low enough so it can get through the underground portions.
Canal Saint-Martin is a 4.5 km long canal in Paris. It connects the Canal de l'Ourcq to the river Seine and runs underground between Bastille and République. (Wikipedia)
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Paris, France.
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Paris, France.
This tourist boat is passing through a lock and about to enter the underground segment of the canal as it flows toward the Seine. It is a unique trip that is well worth taking if you have a chance. It is rather spooky to think that business as usual is taking place above you as you proceed in the darkness below. Along with the subways and sewers of Paris, this is part of underground Paris.
From Wikipedia:
The Canal Saint-Martin is a 4.6 km 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, was covered in the mid-19th century to create wide boulevards and public spaces on the surface.
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Kelley's Island, Ohio.
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At Cincinnati's public landing on the Ohio River. This Landing Ship Tank (LST known as "The ship that won the war") is the last of it's kind remaining. It was launched on 27 October 1942, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and among many other things made more than 40 Normandy landings at Omaha Beach. When the Navy was done with it, it was sent to Greece on 1 September 1964 where it served in the Hellenic Navy as RHS Syros (L-144) from 1964 to 1999. Just before it was to be scrapped out, the USS LST Memorial, Inc., a group of retired military men, acquired Syros in 2000. At their own expense, these men spent seven months making it seaworthy again. The Hellenic Navy had several other LST's that were scheduled to be scrapped from which they donated parts needed to repair the 325. The men sailed her back to the States in January of 2001. She is now an LST memorial museum located in Evansville, Indiana as a tribute to the town that during WWII built 167 LST's as the largest inland shipyard producing LST's in the USA. During Summer months, the ship travels around under it's own power so that more people will get to see and pay homage to her.
Visiting this ship was particularly important to me because my father was captain of a LSM (the smaller Landing Ship Medium" during the war and my godfather was on a LST. Shortly after the war a LST and a LSM came to Cincinnati and moored where the 325 was yesterday and we got to go aboard to see what our fathers had sailed on. Since I was only 3 or 4, I don't remember much, but I do have images of the experience in my head. My father's ship was scrapped in 2013 and no more LSM's are known to remain.
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