We left just before 10.30 a.m. - a fairly easy cruise today. Although it was just before our third lock we caught up with a Dutch commerce, travelling very slowly. The afternoon before he had passed us and taken one of Henks’ mooring pins out along with his power cable, which went into the water! Although he was going so slowly his undertow was very strong. Having caught him up this meant our progress would be slow too - we hovered around for quite a while as we waited for him to ascend the lock. Very kindly, as we caught him up again, he pulled to the side of the canal and let us pass. Of course he then passed us after we had been safely moored to bollards in Donjeaux for about half an hour.....no problems this time!
Skip remembered that there had been a restaurant in the village but sadly a closed down one so dinner on board again! In any case, it was Sunday, so closure is always a likelihood in France!! We had some smoked salmon and a very nice rabbit terrine, which Henk had bought, for lunch on the back deck as the weather was sunny and warm - not the oppressive heat of days before though.
Henk came over around 6 o’clock with two videos to show us of his trip to New Zealand with his wife, Jon, a few years ago, so we watched one before a scratch meal of chicken fajitas and enjoyed the other one after dinner -excellent videos!
11 km. 4 locks. 2 1/2 hours
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