SCOTLAND OR FRANCE

I was really sure we were in France until I saw.....Scotland. A huge commercial barge bearing down on us as we waited for the lock.

Not France?

The lock was busy and took a while. We ended up with two other barges each 80m long and Scotland! When we came out of the lock, our engine sounded fine but we couldn't build up any speed.....had something got caught in the propeller? Very likely in a lock. We decided to moor up for the night. The first two moorings on our charts didn't exist, but the third did.  It was very difficult to moor as the posts were too far apart for Soraya. They were made for larger barges. After lots of back and forth movements, we were moored up properly. But good news! Suddenly the  propeller seemed fine and next morning was back to normal, thank goodness. It could have been a piece of polythene, rags etc......who knows? Fortunately Geoff (not me!) didn't have to put the wetsuit on and dive in.

A post too far!