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Sunday, May 12, 2013

Clearing and Cleaning

Saint-Jean-de-Losne

Today we have been back for a week and it is nice to be in our cozy little home again.  It appears that Armida had a good winter as the covers were still on, she wasn’t too dirty and everything seems intact.  The engine started right up but we haven’t left the dock yet. Blanquarts have installed the immersion heater so we now have electric hot water -  a big improvement.

California saw us off with hot weather and fires in the hills and we managed to bring some of that sunshine with us to France for a pleasant drive from the airport.  The only fog was in my head.  It was bittersweet driving over waterways from past cruises:  the Marne, the Seine, the Yonne and the Canal du Bourgogne, all if which looked very full.  Last year we worried about the lack of water; this years is the opposite.  The rivers are very high and there are closures on many canals due to too much water.  It does mean that everything is very green,… and yellow.

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Rosie and Lilou have settled back into the boating life easily having already adjusted to the time and the routines, particularly meal times as Lilou reminds me every day. Our efforts to improve the weather by importing sunshine from California seem to have been overcome by the recent arrival of lots of English who have brought their rain and cold. Because of this and the high water we are in no hurry to leave, so we are taking it easy, cleaning slowly, catching up with some friends, and thinking about our busy year of visitors and where we will go.   The grey days still let the sun out occasionally.

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