Typical river frontage shot at Conflans – the town at the confluence of the Oise and Seine rivers. Conflans is the barging capital of France, some 40,000 barges tie up there every year. Conflans is some 70km by river from Paris and from there on there is less commercial traffic and thousands of riverboats of all shapes and sizes being used as peoples homes. Lots of the loaded barges look like they are about to sink they have so little freeboard. The average barge is about 80m long, 6m wide and can carry 1,000 tonnes of load.