A bit of boat cleaning to start with, both inside and out - Skip on the outside, Crew inside. We had booked the table for one o'clock and just before midday Louisa messaged to say that they were about an hour away.....perfect! However they hit bad traffic around Lyon (normal!) and didn't arrive until almost 1.30 p.m., not that it mattered - our nice man was not at all perturbed. We mostly had the lunch menu which, at €13.50 for three courses was pretty good. Crew thought she'd ordered a carafe of white wine but something arrived in a glass with ice in it - the waitress said it was Martini. She took it back, having given it a sniff and returned with the carafe. Then our man returned with the 'martini' and said it was white port from Portugal and presented it to me free of charge! A very quirky restaurant but fun! After lunch Louisa and Steve came aboard for the tour and a drink before setting back on the road - they were stopping for the night with their tent somewhere near Troyes, then back across the Channel tomorrow. Lovely lunch, lovely couple - they left around 4 p.m. for their three hour drive. Whilst we were sitting on deck a small yacht with a lone sailor aboard arrived, looking to moor but there were no places so Henk invited him to moor alongside his boat. Later, around 7 p.m. he came back from a walk into town for groceries (one and a half kilometres). He stopped to talk to us for a while and imparted that he had lived in Portugal for some years and was indeed heading back in that direction for winter. He had quite a lot in common with Henk as far as sailing is concerned and as he had to cross Henks' deck, was invited for a drink. Sounded very strange - a Dutchman and a German speaking English together!! A quiet evening with a DVD and to bed. Sometime soon we should be able to receive TV stations - I'm sure we had TV in Macon which is where we are making for tomorrow.
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