Description:
A plein air painting in winter.
The place-name derives from 'aulmes' or elms, and is pronounced 'omps'. It's a pretty port on the 240 km - long canal, busy with big plastic bumper-boats for hire, sunburnt northerners in canal-side restaurants, and the rare wood or steel barge: water-gypsies leading an enviable unconnected life.
In winter there is little traffic to disturb the grey-green water.
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