A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
And then here's a lock, though not all of them have a handy white line down the centre. The white line is probably indicative of the number of cyclists/pedestrians that there can be at times, especially weekends.
Oh, I forgot to mention buildings. That's the other thing you see. I wonder if my growing sense of bordom, ennuie is starting to show? It did start to be a problem for me, there just isn't so much happening when you're following the canal. Which is restful.
In fact, and this wasn't so common, one of the buildings was a restaurant just next to the canal and so I stopped to have lunch. Nothing special, whitebait, followed by something I don't remember, with a petite pichet de rosé.
I also met a couple of people, a group of english people on their boat who were interested in the bike, and then the same french couple I'd met day's earlier when I'd stopped to buy some honey - they were going to the Tourmalet to see a bit of the Tour de France.