We left at 9.30 on a sunny but cool morning. Now we are back to the normal French locks and have a few chains of locks in the next few days......all ascending and assisted by lock keepers. This is nice but we prefer having a remote control as we can move when we want to and don’t have to stop for lunch.
We had a very nice lady keeper, who took our ropes for us to begin with but she got talking to Henk and obviously took a shine to him. After that she only took his rope!!! She saw us through both the locks and two lifting bridges.
Unfortunately we didn’t quite make our destination by lunch time so we did indeed stop for lunch en route - just two locks to go.
As there are not many stopping places on this stretch of the canal, we just moored on some bollards near the village of Heidwiller, which was very peaceful. It’s good to stop in such places sometimes, away from the hustle and bustle of a town or village.
There was, according to our lock keeper, a good restaurant in the village but it was a bit of a walk and when we googled it, it was closed on a Wednesday, of course! So Crew marinaded the big prawns that we had bought in Mulhouse and made a potato and fennel gratin and some veg......not too shabby!
Some TV and bed.
13 km 11 locks 5 hours
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