'Wednesday 22nd June 2022 St Jean de Losne, Bourgogne
At last! We are here once again. 2 years and 8 months since we left. It's been a hard couple of years for all of us but I don't want to think about that at the moment. This is about being back on our boat. Back to life...'
We decided to splash out and take a taxi from Dijon to St Jean which brightened the day of the lead driver on the rank outside the station; cue lots of backslapping, high fives and laughter with the other 2 drivers. As we'd asked for an estimate first I did wonder if we'd agreed to something outrageous but 70 euros seemed fair enough. Maybe we were just getting his day off to a good start.
First up, though, we headed to the Free shop in Dijon to get ourselves a phone sim. We'd used Free previously as they offered a really generous internet allowance. Very easy to set up- you just buy a sim through one of their automatic dispensers. Not quite so easy (but not impossible) to completely cancel the service at the end though.
We arrived at H2o's marina about 11am on a perfect sunny morning. The taxi dropped us off outside the Capitainerie from where we could see our much missed l'Avenir looking, from a distance of about 50m, much as we left her.
Such a happy moment and this image still comes to mind all this time later.
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| l'Avenir waiting patiently for us |
