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There seemed to be times when the canal just didn't go through any towns with shops.  I'd taken two detours into villages looking for food with no luck at all and in the end took a longer detour to Corbigny.  Quite a hilly detour in fact, I was already spoiled with the easy flat riding along the canal.

At Corbigny I found food, including what was to become my favourite: paté de tête, I also bumped into the couple I'd got off the bus with at Auxerre.  They were going to follow the Vezelay pilgrim route south to Lourdes.  Unfortunately, they'd had a bad start in that the woman had fallen off her bike on the first day and badly grazed her leg and arm, but she was carrying gamely on.

This photos is after I've had a fast descent back to the canal, easily found on tiny side roads thanks to the Memory Map GPS.  You can alway's tell when I've food onboard, the back rackpack has it's lid extension raised

It was only 9.30 but I was starving already, so I ate my tomato, celeriac remoulade and head paté with a half baguette sitting just here.  A yellow peach for afters.  Fantastic.

The cyclepath sometimes took detours away from the canal, where the towpath wasn't usable, but it made little difference there's still very few people and virtually no traffic.

I think it's Chatillon.  I had lunch in the town, which was decorated to greet the Tour de France which was passing through at some point.  I took the photo simply as yet another chateau by the banks of the river/canal.