Grim faces this morning as we looked out.......the storm must have been going for most of the night as everything was still sopping wet. So after consulting the weather forecast and rain radar, we decided we would have to stay another night. Not ideal because it meant harder days for us. We need to be in Vitry-Le-Francois by next Sunday ideally as we are meeting Martin and Clare, Skips' nephew and his wife on Tuesday.
Yesterday when our Dutch neighbour left we had to take our lines back resulting in us slewing around so with the aid of our French neighbour Skip moved us to the quayside......much better!
The plan was to lunch in the restaurant but we were thwarted again by the weather - at least we were agreed that we were glad that we hadn't moved on......chucking it down again! Looking at the forecast it looked to be drying up later so we decided on dinner out instead. so a lazy day, doing puzzles and watching TV whilst listening to the rain!
We went out just before 8 and made for the town square - the first time Crew had been off the boat! Ligny is a rather non- descript town but has most of the necessary services. We approached the restaurant that Skip had in mind for dinner just as the waitress was stacking up the chairs and closing! So we asked where we could find another restaurant and she pointed to a Greek restaurant just across the square and said there was also another just around the corner, which was the one we went for. It was Called a pizzeria but had a fairly comprehensive menu. As it was quite a balmy evening and there was quite an attractive terrace we asked if we could eat outside. The waiter asked the boss for some reason, who said 'no'! We couldn't really see why not but we are in France!! We had a pretty good meal, washed down with a good bottle of Vacqueyras. Digestifs, TV and bed.
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