Sunday 23rd September - Verdun to St.Jean de Losne

Our last cruise of 2018 today!  We left Verdun at ten o’clock with a longer cruise than recently as we had decided to return to our winter base.  As rain was expected this evening Skip put our full canopy up, meaning that we could use the back deck in all weathers.

We had a longish run with two big locks, the first of which was Ecuelles, Crews’ most hated lock as it makes us sway all over the place with Aphrodite out of control! 

We arrived on the fuel pontoon just before 2 p.m. and topped up our tanks, leaving Henk to do the same.  When we got to Blanquarts’ we found our berth was taken so we had to moor on an outside pontoon - not ideal.  As there was nobody in the office today (Sunday) we would have to make do until tomorrow.

A very late lunch today as we didn’t settle Henk until almost three o’clock, so a late siesta too!  As Crew needs to deplete the freezer, it was agreed that we would have a Sunday steak dinner.  We even managed to dine on deck since we were all covered up.  The weather is much cooler now and we did get the promised rain although it arrived later than advertised.

39 km. 2 locks. 4 hours