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| Arriving at Peronnes Photo by Anne and Olly |
Grey start, very windy, sunny later. Set off at ten, untied from the mole and turned left on the Nimy-Blaton-Péronnes canal heading back to Péronnes. I made a cuppa and some toast then got the Kindle out and read some more of Pillars of the Earth. Very quiet, nothing else moving but us. Chilly, so I made us a cup of soup to warm us up when we were about 6 kms from Péronnes lock 1. Not long after we’d passed a group of moored cruisers by the Pont de Gaulle, they all set off and followed us, four of them overtaking before the lock. We followed them into the chamber and noted there was another behind us. The keeper waited for the fifth, a British cruiser, which tied on the lock wall opposite WS. The keeper let the lock down very, very slowly, just what we need when we’re rushing to get tied up and get the satellite on to watch the Monaco Grand Prix. It was 1.35 p.m. as we left the chamber; all the cruisers steamed off down to Péronnes lock 2. We turned right into the large and went on to the trolley and tied to its posts, with some difficulty as the wind was blowing hard. Olly brought WS round and on to the trolley converted to lift cruisers and moored under the crane so they could get off with Woody. I started getting the dish up and Mike finished it off. The race had already started. Mike settled down to watch it (as did Olly next door) with his PC on to get the stats via the Internet. The high wind was causing waves making boat was bang against the brackets holding the uprights in place on the trolley. After the race I gave Mike a hand to sink tyres to stop the boat bashing against the trolley.
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