This is the town of Coulon in Marais Poitevin, which is a giant area that was formerly a vast marshland. For many centuries it has been divided up into both dry mash for farming and wet marsh for flood resilence. It has miles upon miles of canals that run throughout it. It's just beautiful. They call it the green Venice.
They use these wonderful flat bottomed boats there with a flat front used for easy and stable loading and unloading.
We are in a museum of the Marais here. Coke and Marian are standing by the front of a boat that is unfinished in the boat building part of the museum.
This is a recreation in the museum of a typical 19th century home in the Marais.
We are standing by the main canal in Coulon.
This is our boat rental. It was really fun to go out on the canals - and beautiful.
Foot bridges cross the canals in the towns, but most of the canals are in open areas.
There are many farms among the canals and they even transport the cattle using the flat bottom boats like the one we are in. You see so many different breeds of cattle around France - on wonder the have such variation in there cheeses.
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