After a lovely lock-free river trip in the sunshine, and the company of some of the most bizarre barges we’ve seen yet, we arrived at Port van Gogh in Asnieres. It is a huge marina with massive barges, motor cruisers and yachts moored and what looks like several businesses aboard the barges. We paid for 2 nights at the Capitaniere then took our bikes off in search of a new laptop charger. Asnieres itself looked a bit scummy, but across the river were several tall office blocks which gave us hope of a proper town. That town turned out to be Neuilly, but, as it was 6 pm in August, and during the week, a lot of places were closed on the outskirts. We reached the tourist info as they were closing and the lady there
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