Fragnes
This season Armida has done a lot of sitting in one place. She spent the month of May sitting in Saint Jean de Losne waiting for the weather to clear. She sat in Chalon sur Saone for a few days waiting for Stephen and Jeanne to arrive and now she is sitting in Fragnes waiting for Skye, Adam and Grandson Sean. Now we have electric hot water and don’t have to run the engine every two days sitting is pleasant, particularly when the weather is now gorgeous and the scenery lovely.
The weather turned with the arrival of the Secrests; the extra two Californians were enough to tip the balance, and with the Australians now in France it is going to get hot. We had a fine time with Stephen and Jeannie as we cruised up the Canal du Centre and into the gap between the premier wine regions of the Cote du Beaune and the Cote du Chalonaise to Santenay.
After leaving them in Chagny we went back and sat in Santenay with friends Jilll and Frank and then ambled back down here to Fragne to sit some more.
There is nothing much here except a lovely mooring with a grassy bank, a nice park, a view over the fields, a charming helpful young Capitaine, an airport nearby that launches and accepts parachutists and stunt planes and a very peaceful atmosphere.
In our push to convert Armida to a domestic service vehicle we did take her half an hour down the canal to the big E. Lecerc supermarket for supplies, along with Bill and Winnie from San Francisco, and then back to Fragnes where we had drinks on our boat and dinner on theirs.
While Armida sits we still get plenty of exercise walking to the Boulangerie, the market and just exploring. While in Chalon we took Lilou and Rosie to the Toilettage (Groomer) to be shawn in honor of Sean’s arrival on Wednesday. 
Meanwhile we will sit some more.
