Saturday 7th September - Lutzelbourg to Saverne

We woke to a chilly grey morning, indeed it rained for a while, so waterproofs were the order of the day.  We left around ten o’clock and got to our first lock just after 10.   However, it wasn’t playing ball again and we had to tie off and call the VNF - the mechanism was triggered by them remotely, so we got through eventually.  The next locks were fine however, and we fairly quickly arrived at our final lock into Saverne, which took a bit longer as it was double the depth than all the others.
We were greeted by the young Capitaine just as we were making for a nice long outside pontoon.  He was loth to let us moor there as he said it was for longer boats but relented in the end and said that Henk could moor on a short finger pontoon next to us.  However as Henk has to moor front in (he has a dinghy on davits) the finger was too short for him to get off the boat.  So he rafted up alongside us, which was fine.
A much earlier lunch for us today, then Skip went shopping and a fairly long siesta!  We are all feeling the lack of rest days, so we looked forward to spending two days in the lovely town of Saverne.
We had some serious cleaning to do (and a bit of self maintenance for Crew!) but decided to have a lazy day and tackle the cleaning tomorrow.
Crew glazed a ham hock that we bought and had new potatoes and veg. with it....very tasty!  We had TV reception with a bit of manoeuvring of the mast, so watched a bit, then bed.

10 km 9 locks 3 hours