Tuesday 6th September - Lyon to Trevoux

We left Lyon at our usual time of 10 o'clock.  As we possibly will not be going south again, time to say 'goodbye' to Lyon......sad!  It's a very interesting city with lots of history, if a little scruffy in parts.....it wouldn't go amiss for the Lyon council to provide some more rubbish clearing and some more bins as some parts are strewn with litter and dog ends - shame!  Our first Saone lock brought back not such good memories - they are certainly not as easy as the Rhone locks, although they are not as deep.  For a start, they fill as all the smaller locks on the rivers and canals.....from the gates instead of from below which makes for more turbulence, which Aphrodite doesn't like!!  We are not sure whether it's the shape of our hull or our fat belly!!  Thankfully the locks are few and far between.   We arrived in the quaint little town of Trevoux at 1.15p.m. and moored on the comfortable floating pontoon.  There was a peniche also moored there and one of the men came over and suggested that we moor further back as they were painting their boat - a very charming Frenchman with good English.  Henk came over for a beer and some lunch.....there's definitely a theme going on here!  Skip did a recce into town to remind himself of the town as it was three years since we had visited and returned quite excited at the fact that the 'grenouille restaurant', Le Chaudron was there.  However as it wasn't open until Wednesday, we simply decided to stay for two nights so that we could enjoy a feast of frogs' legs!  He also found another restaurant further into town called La Baroque, where we enjoyed a lovely dinner with excellent service on a terrace under the trees.

30 km 1 lock 3 1/2 hours