Saturday 21st September - Chateau Montreux to Montbeliard

We left on another sunny morning with less than a chill in the air than recently.  As we approached our third lock, we noticed a lot of cars parked on the towpath.......fishing competition!  So very slowly out of the lock to the side of the canal until we ran out of fishing poles!!  They do take their fishing very seriously obviously!
Yesterday we ascended just over forty metres but now we are descending until we reach our home base - so much easier!  It would have been quicker still if the locks had been in our favour.  However, not so, we had to wait for them all to fill.
We arrived in Montbeliard around 1.30 p.m., surprised to find the port fairly empty.  For some reason, Skip decided on going front in on a small finger pontoon.  A young man bravely tried to help us moor but we decided (after some strong words from Crew!) to find a more spacious berth.  We went comfortably alongside a main pontoon - not sure why we didn’t do that in the first place,  onsidering the amount of available space!!
It was a beautiful sunny day but again, with a fair breeze blowing, so we just put the sun screens up to shield us from sun and wind.  Then a smoked salmon lunch with Henk.  We all decided not to go out for dinner again - just an easy supper for us all.
TV reception was very good but alas, no decent programmes to watch really....Saturday night!!  A shame we are not fans of Strictly Come Dancing!

21 km 11 locks 4 hours