Tuesday 14th September 2010 Cercy-la-Tour. Day off. Mike at St-J-d-L

Warm and sunny after a cold night. Mike got ready and set off for St-Jean-de-Losne just after eight. He sent me a text at 10.45 a.m. to say he had arrived and there was no sign of Paul’s Liberty yet, he arrived a little later. The path along the bank by the trees had gone. Strange that was a very popular place to moor! (There were still boats mooring there but they couldn’t get cars by their boats now) He said the farmer had extended his field almost to the river’s edge, so there was only a person width path now, plus the fuel barge had gone, there was now a pontoon with a single pump dispensing petrol, plus white and red diesel. All the other boats on the pontoon at Cercy had gone by ten. They were replaced later by an ex-Rive de France and several hire boats.