The family came over to the boat after their hotel breakfast to wish us ‘au revoir’ around ten o’clock. After great excitement feeding the ducks and spotting some enormous carp in the canal and consuming coffees and tea, they made their slow way back to Blighty, stopping overnight in the Reims/Epernay region. It had been so lovely to see the excitement of the children on the boat and, although the weather hadn’t been fantastic, it was bearable. It would probably take a day or two to get Aphrodite back to normal as they wanted to open all the cupboards and drawers!!
Crew has a problem in that the hand held Dyson is not charging. This is a source of huge annoyance as the charger was new last year, so words will be had with the said Dyson company on our return home! Skip actually ordered a new one from Amazon to be delivered to the port. It was supposed to arrive yesterday but it didn’t and today is a French holiday. It then has just tomorrow and Saturday to arrive before we move on......here’s hoping! By way of a belt and braces approach, Skip went off on a half an hour trek to a Dyson shop in town, which seems to have done a disappearing act! He then found a very large LeClerc hypermarket, which, although they sold Dysons, did not have spares! So, having walked about five miles, Crew persuaded him to return ‘home’.
Henk arrived late afternoon and we had a catch up chat and drink - he has a problem with his bow thruster.......batteries we think.
We decided on a quiet night in with a chicken salad for supper in front of the TV.
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