Cloudy with sunny spells and a few drops of rain. Mike painted the port side front deck and the side step. I looked for WiFi signal boosters and found a site that described how to make low cost DIY antennas for better reception of WiFi. We went out for a ride in the car. There was sign board on the mooring which said there was a “must-see” at Beaucaire (a local village) a bateau-lavoir! So we went to find it. It was nothing more than a renovated lavoir (washing place for clothes) in a local stream! Nothing to do with boats at all. We went on north into Pouilly-sur-Loire to cross the Loire and had a drive through the countryside northeast of the town. Mike chose the route and Lucy (SatNav) was on, so he just picked the side roads – and we found ourselves on a farm track, for miles! Twice! We found our way into Suilly-la-Tour and went to Donzy via little villages then back to La Charité-sur-Loire crossing the river back to Herry. Gentle rolling farmland, now mostly devoid of crops except maize and sunflowers, with some very ancient houses in small hamlets – lots of which were falling into disrepair. Just our boat and Charley on the moorings. A hireboat with loads of noisy kids that had moored behind us at Sury arrived and moored towards the lock.
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