Thursday 23rd August - Chamouilly to Chevillon

We left at 10.30 - our mooring for the night was to be a grass bank with no power.  The first few locks were deeper than before by half a metre but this meant they were not so violent, to Crews’ great pleasure!
We arrived in Chevillon about 1 p.m.and had to use pins to moor and a step so that we could get on and off the boat.  All the fenders had to be lowered too as the side was concrete!  A late lunch and a lazy afternoon followed.
Research on the hotel/restaurant just across the canal discovered that it was more like a commercial hotel going by the opening hours.......it was only open Monday’s to Thursdays but closed on Thursday evening.  Just our luck!!  So Crew had to take some chicken out of the freezer to defrost as we had no power and didn’t want to use the microwave for that purpose.
We dined on Crews’ version of a Thai curry and enjoyed the cooler temperature once the sun had gone down.  The weather was due to change in the next day or two, with rain forecast for Saturday so we made the most of the balmy evening.  Henk went to bed and we caught up with a couple of episodes of Poldark - expect to have caught up by the time we return home!

11 km. 5 locks. 2 1/2 hours