Thursday 13th to Friday 21 June  Well we originally planned to stay for 3 nights, but the attraction of Paris resulted in us staying for a very pleasant 10. And at about £35 a night, including electricity and showers, what…

Saturday 22nd June  Back travelling today, beginning the start of the relaxing (hopefully) journey south, although for the next stage we take the river Marne which broadly takes us east. Just a short run today, out of the marina lock,…

Sunday 23 June It’s beginning to get warm now, despite the fact that we still have a long way to go to get to the Med, so a leasurely start at 11 following the fitting of the bimini to keep…

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…

Tuesday 25 June Woke at 0745 to the sound of the Belgian barge behind us starting up and moving off for the 0800 lock opening. Ann decided to do a bit of yoga on the bank whilst I got the…

Wed 26 June A fairly uneventful day, started about 10, and unfortunately couldn’t moor up where we’d planned at Nogent-l’Artaud because we thought better of displacing the small pontoon full of French youths jumping in the river to cool off…

The shady trees of the mooring together with the Pannier Champagne caves just over a km away were too much of a temptation to move on, plus a few odd jobs on the boat. Also with a petrol station less…

Friday 28 June Only a 25 km run today so continued to catch up with boat based things until noon, Ann cooking, and me stripping the shower drain pump to work out why it makes a healthy noise, but refuses…

Saturday 29th June Today should have been a leasurely 25km along the Marne River with 3 locks. However when we arrived at the first lock we pressed the remote control, watched the lock lights flash and finally settle on 2…