Aphrodite left the mooring around 10 a.m., leaving Henk to his ablutions - ther’s no hurrying that man as, a little like Crew, it takes him some time to get going of a morning! Before we left a catamaran came by, going our way so the locks would be against us unfortunately. Then coming up to our second lock a commerce came past us, so we thought our fortunes had turned but the lock was still against us, alas, as we had caught up with the catamaran. He obviously had to wait for the commerce to pass, so we were back where we started with all the locks against us! However the locks were easy and we arrived in Vitry just before 1 p.m. and Henk turned up about an hour later.
Vitry is a difficult mooring with limited space on the side at the entrance to the marina and little space to reverse into the pontoon. We made it safely, then later helped Henk to tie up alongside us at an angle. Henk has to go front in as he has a dinghy at his stern so that seemed to work better anyway.
We chewed the fat for a little while then had a spot of lunch.
Dinner was to be on board as we had brought some steaks from England which needed using so Crew did some preparation after a siesta.
A nice lazy evening, eating, chatting and enjoying the wine.
15 km. 5 locks. 3 hours
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