Tuesday 4 th July - Cumieres to Mareuil-sur-Ay

Another easy day for us - we left at 10 a.m. in already high temperatures.  Rain was expected according to our forecast but it is not always right!  We managed our short cruise in a little over an hour and moored, stern to in Mareuil.........our first stern mooring in a while.  The only problem with it in this case was that the westerly direction was such that we would get sun onto our back deck for much of the afternoon, making our sun blinds redundant.
We remembered stopping here last year, just after we dropped Martin and Clare off at Epernay station for their journey home.  It must have been a Sunday or Monday, however and the little bistro on the corner close to the port was not then open.....not so this time though, so we tidied ourselves up and went over for lunch.  It was fairly full and we had to eat inside as the tables outside were occupied. The lady serving was very helpful and jolly and we had a good, if large, lunch.
Again it was much to hot to do anything in the way of work so we whiled away the afternoon reading and resting.  The promised rain didn’t arrive!  Once the sun started to disappear we were able to sit on the back deck comfortably which we did until almost 10 p.m. again.  Then some TV and bed.

10 km. 2 locks. 1 1/4 hours