Monday 24 June
Well the bimini is certainly keeping the sun off and will certainly save us later in the week as the heat wave approaches. A fairly short run of 10 miles today as we started the day with a cycle ride into Meaux, the heart of the French brie region to visit the very grand cathedral and to buy bread, a few provisions and to the local Brocomarche for a lump hammer to drive the mooring stakes in when needed. Only one lock today taking us up another 2 or so metres to a mooring just upstream of the lock on the outskirts of a village. It was going to be just us for the night but at about 8pm we were joined by a Belgian barge, the second we've seen all day, heading towards Paris waiting for the lock to start up again in the early morning.
