After a good nights’ sleep in a peaceful boatyard with visions of toons on a loop through my brain, we got up fairly early in a semi sunny day and decided to head off the Marne and back to the Seine. The Marne is a lovely river with lots of traditional guingettes alongside offering French cuisine, live music and tea dances. Unfortunately we were passing through late on a Wednesday morning in August and only one was open - which was packed! Undeterred we decided to make the most of the dry day (bad weather was forecast for the next few days) and get as far along as we could. We hit our record for locks successfully navigated that day, going through 6 in total before arriving at the newly built Draveil marina on the River
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