There goes the sun.

From Saint Mihiel the weather stayed warm and sunny and the cruising was lovely and relaxed and we said to ourselves, “Does it get any better than this”?   And the answer was no!   We stayed at the surprisingly nice town of Commercy, an overnight in a small village and then left the Meuse valley via an 800m tunnel and dropped 50m through 12 locks into Toul.  This was surprisingly relaxed and our first downhill since leaving Holland.  Toul was a pleasant enough, fully fortified town with a nice mooring but after one night we were ready to move on to Nancy so I walked over to let the lock keeper know we were leaving the harbour.  Mais Monsieur c’est une grieve.  Another general strike and the two big locks on the Moselle were closed.  Oh well, the weather was still nice and we spent another day in Toul.

That night the clouds came in and we were treated to a thunder storm and the next day was cold and rainy.  We left anyway and spent the day on the Moselle and then into the Canal de la Marne au Rhine to Nancy and doing locks in the rain.  With the bimmini on the back it wasn’t too bad but one of us did get pretty wet. 

Since then it has been cold and grey but the rain is easing.  We  are hoping that this is not the end of the autumn and that we will see some more sun.  Nancy is a lovely town with a pleasant harbour and we will write more about it soon.  We will either leave the boat here for the winter or in a little town called Lagarde a couple of days away that we will check out soon.