We left alone at 10.15 as Henk was still in his dressing gown - he’s worse than Crew! He will come on a little later. Having cruised this route last year and looked up last years’ blog we knew that at the first lock (at almost 4m deep) it was going to be a struggle to get a line onto the bollards. Indeed Crew couldn’t even see the bollard she was to tie onto!! Not ideal cruising weather as a light drizzle was descending on us - however, worse was to come! Around 11.30 a.m. we were the recipients of a deluge and we both got extremely wet. The locks had changed character too, with a lot of swaying backwards and forwards.....a good job we didn’t get seasick!
We arrived in Froncles at 12.30 p.m., luckily in the dry and Hilary from the barge we moored behind yesterday took our lines, so settled very quickly. The halte nautique is very efficient with water and power and is also a camper van stopover but sits in a valley with a wooded hill of around 75 metre height, so........no TV!
Skip went into the village for supplies and Henk arrived around four o’clock. He came aboard for a beer and a chat for a while. We all felt tired for some reason, so we parted company for a quiet evening and early bed for a change!
12.5 km. 5 locks. 2 1/4 hours
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