Another beautiful hot sunny day and after showering, giving the ducks their breakfast and having our own, we headed back the way we had come at 11.30am towards La Truchere, the beautiful stop before the first lock on the River Seille. It was a hard day's work ahead, with 3 un-manned locks to do ourselves and Jim was appointed Lock Man for the day! It was brutal in the hot sunshine and the diet cokes and beer supplies started to reduce rapidly! At the third lock, there was a bumper boat in the lock who hadn't a clue what to do, and as they were blocking our passage, Jim dropped me off and I went to the lock and locked them through, then did the lock for us, after which I was so knackered I almost didn't manage to climb down the ladder onto our boat as I was so tired! Some lemon fanta brought me round from being purple to a normal tanned light brown again! On we went arriving at La Truchere at 3.45pm, the most beautiful stop on our travels so far. After a couple of well deserved beers in the cafe on the river, we had a rest before heading out to L'Escale for dinner and free aperitifs with the leaflet we had picked up at Louhans. Dinner was lovely, starters of fish soup were very filling, served with a very tasty roule and grated gruyere cheese, followed by mains of breadcrumbed Pike (Jim), Chicken in cream sauce, and then caramel ice cream and profiteroles for desserts. We then headed back to Ginger Grouse II as the capitainere had earlier warned of a storm coming, so we put the canopies up on the boat and expected the worst.......nothing, a calm and uneventful night. No games on board, as I am fed up getting beaten!
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