Grey, cool start getting warmer but no sunshine. Mike went into town for a loaf (they only had baguettes at tourist prices 90c each) and to the post office, which was an agency in the Mairie and they hadn’t the facilities to do the required tasks. While I was making a sandwich for lunch he did the monthly checks on our new batteries for the first time. After lunch we went out in the car to Clamecy, sat on Leclerc’s car park to use the Internet (on blue for fast speed 3.6Mb/sec) to check emails and various odds and ends. We had a drive along the canal to look at moorings at Rochers de Saussois (a short pontoon 20m) near Merry-sur-Yonne, a basin with grassy banks at Mailly-le-Château and two pontoons with water and electricity at Mailly-La-Ville. Back home, noting that there had been a sudden explosion of hire boats and they were everywhere, at least one in each lock and several en route between them! When we got back Mike found Nick had a new job – translating for the guy at the hirebase when non-French speaking English clients rang up. One was complaining of not having any electricity at Tannay. Not surprising as it’s all disconnected when there are no staff there - they are only there for boat turn round times. Mike and Nick had a look at one of their hireboats, it had a 90 bhp 5 cylinder Nanni diesel with British modifications – twice the power of our boat engine – and they charge 5,000€ a week for the hire of a 6 berth! Ouch!
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