We usually rented boats in the late season to avoid the crowds but this is our first experience with Armida and it is later in the season than we have done before, and we are further north so, you guessed it, it’s colder. As I write this at 9am the sun has just hit the boat and is almost up to 0C (32F) outside after a minimum of –4C overnight. It was still that at 8am. Armida has good insulation in the hull and the roof but the windows are not double glazed, nor are the walls around them insulated. With us inside generating moisture this means there is substantial condensation, so our morning task is drying down the windows and walls. Today is a little hard as some of them are covered in ice, even though we had shore power and ran an electric heater all night and the inside temp stayed above 7. We were cosy, cuddled together under our warm duvet, dogs on top under another blanket. Any budding plans of wintering aboard Armida were put to rest – these cruisers are definitely 3 season boats.
Late in the season means less rental boats but this canal is a popular one and it is School Holidays in France so they are still about and will slow us down a little on our trip to Strasbourg.
Later that day – Today we went through 2 tunnels, the boatlift again, 21 locks and covered 33km so it was a long day. The warmest if got was 7C and that was in the tunnel! Still we are well on our way to Strasbourg and hope to the be there on Sunday, when the weather will add some rain.
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