Even hotter. A beautiful morning. Parted company from our friends as we both set off upriver, the peniche having to wriggle away from the wall in the river mud. Said goodbye to the river with all its commercial traffic and followed a peniche houseboat up to the first lock on the Canal du Centre, lock 34bis, 10.76m deep as it replaced a flight of locks through the centre of town. The boat in front went up (he filled the 38m long lock on his own) and we waited while the lock emptied, by which time a small tjalk (Dutch barge) had caught up and joined us in the next locking. The moorings at Fragnes, pay and non-pay, on the right hand bank were half full at 11.30 a.m. As we had plenty of electricity and didn't need the facilities on offer, we motored on to moor on the left bank 100m below the next lock, no 34, where there was a good depth of water under the boat (important when there is fast passing traffic). Had some lunch then Mike set off on his trusty moped to collect the car from St Jean. He had coffee with the friends we'd left moored there, bought a new French courtesy flag from H2O for 3,20 euros and spotted our friends with their peniche just coming to moor by the bridge, so he lent them a hand to tie up before setting off back to Fragnes with the car and the bike in the boot. By this time the pay moorings on the far bank at Fragnes had filled up. Holiday time! Hey-ho.
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