Tuesday 8th August - Vitry- Le-Francois to La Chaussee-sur-Marne

We decided to leave Vitry a day earlier than planned as there was a weather window during this afternoon.  Martin and Clare arrived around 12.30 so after a welcome drink we had some lunch and set off.  Yesterday Skip had booked a table for us for dinner in La Chaussee so we left Vitry about two o'clock and after 5 locks, arrived on the mooring two and a half hours later.
We got ourselves sorted and decided that it was Pimms o'clock!  More catching up and then time to get ready to go to dinner.  The restaurant took some finding in this large but quiet village and I think we went the long way round but the meal was superb and not too expensive (although, as usual, the wine bill upped the final account somewhat!).  We had just started of on our return journey when all the street lights went out......I said it was a quiet village!  Luckily we had a fairly full moon and once we got used to the dark we managed to take the correct route back to the boat.  As Martin and Clare had had an early start we all went straight to bed......lovely day!

14 km 5 locks 2 1/2 hours