Sunday 20th March 2010 Molinet. Day off.

Mooring at Molinet. C. Lat a la Loire

After a cold night bright sunshine and mild, no wind! Why couldn’t we have had weather like this for the previous two days? Another loaded péniche went uphill around 6.30 a.m. On with the jobs! Mike got the moped off the front deck and fetched some bread from the village. A small DB called Topaz, with an Aussie flag on the back, hooted as it went past so Mike waved from our side doors. After lunch we put the bike on the roof and treated it to a new cover, we cleared the front deck off, stowed the coal and all the briquettes under the seat. There were two big pieces of scrap timber on the end of the mooring so out with the chainsaw. Mike ran the engine and Markon drive for 240v power to run it and we chopped the wood up for logs for the fire – every little bit helps. It was 5.00 p.m. by the time we’d packed up and stowed everything away!