Tuesday 30th May - Baume-les-Dames to L'Isle- sur-Le-Doubs

As the two slow boats, Polaris and The Black Pig, had caught us up yesterday and were moored ahead of us we decided to leave fairly early and departed at 9 a.m.  We had sun and cloud and a much more bearable temperature with a promise of some rain later.  The fresher weather made lock work so much easier, also helped by the fact that the locks were mostly in the region of one to one and a half metres depth, with nice low walls, enabling Skip and Crew to practise their lassoing skills!  A very tranquil cruise through the lovely countryside.All went well until our penultimate lock when, as we were approaching, a VNF lady gesticulated for us to retreat - a fat log was in the lock, so we reversed and waited until it floated past us.  We arrived in L'Isle - sur-Le- Doubs at three o'clock and were assisted in by a nice Swiss man.  The mooring is free but electricity is paid for by card.......turns out that the electricity is more expensive than most moorings €14.80!!!!  Crews' sugar level was dangerously low as no food had been taken so a quick, strange lunch of croissant and white wine was taken!!  The mooring is next to a school playing field and the children were playing lively team games - hmm.......siesta??  Around 5.30 we went into the town which was very close to the mooring, with a good sized Intermarche easily walkable.  We did a shop then Skip took the heavy things back to the boat whilst Crew made for a handy bar, passing the restaurant we thought we might patronise later.  Unbelievable!!  Closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays!!!  Oh well - looks like an on board pizza!  It was very pleasant, imbibing a couple of beers and chatting to some locals however before we made our way back to Aphrodite.  Now that school was out, we were 'treated' to some drum practice before partaking of said pizza and red wine.  Managed to get Channel 4 at last, so watched Gogglebox before retiring.

31 km14 locks 6 hours