Monday 3rd September - Rolampont to Langres

We left at 9.30 with Henk to follow on a little later, under grey skies with a promise of a couple of showers later.  The locks were very well behaved again - quick and gentle and, when in our fifth lock, the sun appeared.

Most of the lock houses so far have been occupied, so Crews’ habit of making over the derelict one’s was altered to making improvements to the current occupants design and decoration!   However on this stretch there were more empty houses for her to get her teeth into - it passes the time in the locks!

A nice tranquil easy run to Langres saw us tying up on the long concrete pontoon just after midday - Henk arrived forty minutes later.  As we did in Rolampont, we moored the boat facing the direction in which we had come, in order to get TV reception.....this we remembered from last year!
We had our usual lunch and siesta.  Skip toyed with the idea of walking into town but it is a long, very steep climb......a shame because Langres is an ancient fortified city, dating back to Roman times with many buildings of interest.
We decided on a quiet evening in watching TV, with just a bowl of soup and cheese for supper as Crew wasn’t feeling like cooking.

10 km. 7 locks. 2 3/4 hours