Saturday 18 th August - Vitry-le-Francois

A sort of rest day today as we were waiting for the engineer to come and sort out our boiler.  Pascale, the Capitaine, came over to tell us he would be with us around 1 p.m., so we decided to walk into town to visit the market.  However, unusually he turned up early, just before 11 a.m. so we revised our plans.
Henk came over to help with the technical translation and after almost an hour, the problem was solved ( we hope!).  We then walked into town for a mooch around the market.  Having found it, the stalls set up in the covered market, I have to say we were rather disappointed - not many stalls at all!  The one day that Crew gets to go to market and it’s below par!!  We decided on a beer stop so Crew nabbed a table in a cafe on the main square, whilst Skip went to try and book a table at the number one restaurant in Vitry, Made in France.  Unfortunately it was fully booked for the evening - a shame because when we visited before and wanted to try it, it was closed!  So we enjoyed a couple of beers, then walked back to the boat, buying a baguette on the way and booking the second best restaurant, La Grande Brasserie.
Then lunch on board, a rest and a few jobs before we met up for our usual aperitifs at 6.30 p.m.  we then made our way back into town and enjoyed a very good meal, finishing with digestifs on the back deck, then bed!