Wednesday 20th June - Nemours to Moret-sur-Loing

Crew overslept so we didn’t leave our mooring until 9.45 a.m.  It promised to be a beautiful day for our last sojourn on the Loing.  There was a bit of a question mark about our mooring for the night at Moret because all reports said that a lot of unmanned barges were moored there and not much space for visitors. So, spotting a space just before what was to be our final lock we decided to tie off there and Skip walked past the lock to see if there was space in the other side.  The answer was ‘no’ so we made ourselves comfortable on the quay.  There was a notice informing us that we should pay for the mooring even though there was no power or water - where to pay was a mystery so we decided to wait until someone came to ask for money.  We haven’t paid anything for quite a while, even when we’ve had facilities, so it’s not really a hardship to pay here!
After lunch and a rest, Skip walked into town to look for any likely restaurants.  He found quite a few and reported back that it was a very beautiful town.  By now the temperature was over 30c with not much wind, so Skip took a chair and sat under the trees in the shade.
After freshening up we walked into town - the first restaurant we came to looked very nice but alas, it was closed so we carried on.  We both remembered being here before five or six years ago with our friends, Gary and Tina and indeed we ended up eating in the same restaurant as we had that time.
We asked for a glass of champagne as an aperitif but the waitress apologised, saying that it wasn’t cold enough, so we opted for a glass of Cremant instead, which was very good.
The waitress was working alone and the terrace was full so the service was pretty slow, not that it mattered to us.  The food was very good, if a bit expensive.  At the end of our meal the waitress came and said that the champagne was cold enough now and brought us a glass each on the house - nice touch we thought!  We didn’t get back to Aphrodite until just before midnight so no TV - just some music and a digestif!

18 km. 6 locks. 3 hours