Crew woke late after the best nights' sleep in a long while. No cleaning planned today as we have a lunch date with our Kiwi friends, Gwen and Peter in St. Christophe - about an hours' drive away.
What a find!!! La Chope et le Pichet, a converted lock keepers' house on the Canal Lateral a la Garonne is run by a very nice Belgian, serving excellent food! Peter and Gwen brought along two Australian friends they had met last year, Stuart and Deb (see picture). The lock was reasonably busy as we lunched with five or six boats passing, including the prototype of a new Le Boat hire boat - not very pretty in my view, but practical I guess with plenty of visibility. If it prevents them bashing into us, as one did last year, it's all to the good!!
On the way back from lunch we stopped off at the Garden Centre and found some lovely, very reasonably priced plants for Aphrodites' 'garden' - we brought a herb garden with us!
As it was almost five o'clock on our return we decided against any work so relaxed on the aft deck instead! Lovely day.
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