Friday 31st May - Montbeliard

Luxury..... a lovely lie in for Crew!!  The idea for today is relaxation, for tomorrow we are on the move again.  Skip went over to the Capitainerie to see if our charger had arrived - it hadn’t of course. So he went about checking the tracking of the parcel......it appears that they couldn’t find the address - it should be simple but eventually the package was lost in the ether!   Steam coming out of Crews’ ears!!!!  The irony is that last year we bought a mini Hoover as the Dyson charger stopped working and instead of storing it in the engine room as a spare, we took it home.....mistake!  Enough about vacuum cleaners!
There is a small bistro/bar at the end of our pontoon, so we decided to give it a go for lunch with Henk.  It was very restricted, serving just a ‘plat’ for €10 - either a pork stew with prunes or a choice of two salads, one with smoked trout and the other with sausage.  Henk and Crew chose the pork and Skip had the smoked trout salad........all perfectly good. The carafe of white wine was very good.
Crew had put the washing machine on before lunch as, strangely, the electricity supply had improved
so put the washing out on our return. Then relax!!
Skip went over to see the VNF to inform them of our departure times tomorrow (we have one manual lock and they need to know when a lock keeper is needed).  He said that we would leave at 9.30 and Henk at 10.30.
Early evening, Skip complained of aches and pains and was running a slight temperature.  As the evening wore on, his temperature rose alarmingly so Crew had to become ‘nurse’ and administer copious amounts of water and a cold compress.  He gets this every now and again oddly, mostly only on the boat and he does have some medication which helps.......alas, he forgot to bring the pills!
So a quiet evening, watching two episodes of Doc Martin and bed.