Thursday 25th August - Cruas

We badly needed another rest day so two nights in the attractive little harbour, albeit overlooked by a nuclear power plant and straddled by an electricity pylon!!  It feels surprisingly calm just off the mighty River Rhone!  Indeed a lazy day was required by all crew today, although Henk took his bike to the village (1.5 km) for supplies, Crew gave herself a bit of a 2,000 mile service and Skip didn't bother with anything much except preparing lunch!  Sorry - forgot to mention the 45 minutes spent emptying the water from the aircon.......will have to get it fixed in St. Jean de Losne.  We must have shifted well over 100 litres of water!  We invited Henk over at 7 p.m. for pre-dinner drinks, then made our way to the restaurant.  We all ordered grenouilles (frogs legs) and wine.  It was karaoke night there, but looking at the choice of songs to sing, we decided against participating!!  Not sure France is ready for our musical talents!!!  Well, we waited.....and waited......and waited!  After two hours, having reminded them that we still hadn't eaten, we decided to leave.....two hours of drinking wine on empty stomachs is not good!  They did present us with two complimentary small carafes of wine, suggesting that our order had been forgotten but we were so hungry by then, top priority was to get some food inside us.  We repaired to Aphrodite for bread and cheese, a bit of a chat and bed.