Saturday 1st July - Dormans to Damery

As Crew had trouble getting off to sleep, she overslept again so we didn’t leave until 10.45 a.m.  After a 9km run we came to our first lock and to our surprise a cruiser was just exiting as we approached - we haven’t come across much traffic at all on this river.  On entering we found a huge lock with a floating pontoon, which we vaguely remembered from our last cruise in this area.  As the pontoon would only accommodate one boat, I guess if another boat wanted to lock through at the same time, they would have to raft up side by side.....a strange arrangement!
We made very good time and were moored up and by 12.45.  A bit of a panic as we didn’t see a borne to plug into but discovered it at the top of the steps of the pontoon.
There was a nice looking restaurant just across the river from the mooring so after some lunch, Skip went over to see if he could reserve a table for us, either dinner today or lunch tomorrow.  Unfortunately, the usual story.....closed on Sunday evening and on Monday!  So later he went to a restaurant on our side of the river to ask if they were open for Monday lunch - they were!
Although it was far too hot to cook in the galley really, Crew cooked our last British steaks and jacket potatoes for dinner......and very hot it was too!!  Again, we stayed on the back deck for as long as possible as it was still a very warm evening!
Some TV and bed.

21 km. 2 locks  2 hours