Hot and sunny. Up at seven and away half an hour later, running alongside Floan and surfing their stern wave until we rounded the corner and a tug was coming upriver. We said au'voir to George and Helen and we’d see them on the return trip. Turned to point upstream and moored on the pontoon at Jassans-Riotter, quietly as it was still before 8.00 a.m. and people on boats were still asleep. Mike went to find the boulangerie to get a loaf for lunch, while I put the heat shields in the windows. We dozed in the heat - it was too hot to move.
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This is the story of the start of this year's cruise, leaving the Canal du Midi in France and heading North up the river Rhone (which many people told us couldn't be done with such a slow vessel as a narrowboat) so here's the story.....
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