Sunday 4th June - Montreux-Chateau to Dannemarie

We left the mooring at 8.45 as we should be at the first of our 16 lock chain, however we had 5 km to cruise to get there and didn't turn up until 9.30!  We had a very nice, helpful lady lock keeper for the first 8 locks which were very rapid.  Then a rather good looking young man took over who was keen to practise his English........we managed to get ourselves tied up in Dannemarie at 11.45!!  We moored stern to in a good space but with the fairly strong wind pushing us onto the pontoon, we struggled to keep the stern of the boat from hitting the pontoon.  So it was later than planned that we set off into town for lunch.  We had a good lunch in the Auberge St. Leonard but as we were both very tired, we made our way back to the port for a siesta.  In fact,  Crew slept for almost two hours!!  We discussed our forward plans as there is yet another chain of 11 locks for the next part of the cruise and another 11 on to Mulhouse.......a smidge too many for us old things!  So we decided to stop for a night at a small bank side mooring, the only problem being that the weather forecast predicted strong winds on Tuesday and Skip is not too keen on wind!!  So it's quite possible that we stay in Dannemarie for three nights - it's a good spot with a supermarket, three restaurants and a bar on the other side of the river......not bad at all!  And we actually managed to get TV too!  So a bit of TV and bed.

10 km  16 locks 3 hours