Another rest day, so Skip cleaned the outside of the boat and went shopping, Crew put the washing machine on and cleaned the toilet and shower and Henk started on sanding our other table - that's a rest day folks!!! A space had materialised just behind us and a considerable worry for us was for a hire boat to try and squeeze in, particularly as Henk is rafted up to us and we had a pretty strong wind! Around one o'clock two boats approached, intent on that space! We managed to help the English crew to moor, not without them scraping Henks' rail though! Then a German crew decided to raft up alongside them......more angst! Again, Cornelis k. took a knock but eventually we all got him safely alongside the Brits - phew.....no more problems now! We should be safe! Henk only stopped for a bite of lunch, whilst Skip washed up and Crew was considering a siesta (had a bad night last night!). Crew did not rise from her slumber until almost six o'clock by which time Henk had only just finished sanding and oiling the table.......he was working all day on it with only a short break for lunch!! Poor boy! Large hotel boats were coming and going, spoiling any peace with their loud generators and ensuring that we bounced around nicely! Also many more commercial boats were plying the river than on the Rhone, adding to,the bouncing!! We decided a quiet supper of beef carpaccio, salad and bread and a fairly early night.
Tournus is another ancient city with a certain shabby charm, with narrow streets and a lot of churches, abbeys and monasteries built by the Romans - the first monastery being built in 875. When Napoleon returned from exile in 1815 he awarded Tournus the Legion of Honour to reward the Tournusians for their courage towards the Austrians, whom they chased away in 1814.
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