Back on Decize…. and Covid!

Winding our way back

We delayed our return from Turkey, staying a day in Dijon and then getting an AirBnB in St Jean for a couple of nights to give the H2O workshop a bit more time to finish up the work they were doing.

In Dijon we stayed at our favorite hotel (ibis Styles Dijon Central). In St Jean our favorite place to stay (Les Charmilles) was booked so we tried a new place (La Marina). It was right on the river with views and a ful kitchen which was nice.

Covid!

But.. as we were moving back onto the boat I started feeling a bit off Friday (June 19) and by Sunday was sure I was sick. Got some Covid tests from the pharmacy and confirmed that, yes, after four years, I finally managed to catch Covid-19. Felt like a moderately bad flu.

Gray and back…

After of week I finally tested negative and we set out on a little shakedown cruise ahead of the arrival of our second set of guests of the season (my niece Danielle, her husband Perry and their recently graduation son, Abel). We headed up the Saone toward Gray.

We have had a lot of rain this summer and the Saone is running much faster than normal and is up quite a bit. The Canal du Nivernais (which we had planned to do this year) is closed and looks to be that way for a while.

We had planned to stay a few days in Gray but got to talking with another boater (Peter, from England) and he suspected the dock we were at would be flooded in the next few days so we headed back south to St Jean to get the boat ready for our guests.

Sure enough… the docks in Gray were flooded the next day so we made a good call.