Naix-aux-Forges to Demange

Not such a good day today.  Cold (7C at 9am, 9C at 13.30), windy and showery.  Not great cruising weather and we intended to do a long day.  This morning we were just 15 kms from the summit of this canal, with an almost 5km long tunnel at the top, and then 12 locks in very quick succession going down the other side with nowhere to stop in between.  So if you go through the tunnel you just have to keep going to the bottom.  About 5 hours.  We should have got there about 16.45 but we got stuck in a lock again and this time it took 2 phone calls and 50 mins before a lock keeper arrived.  So we changed our plans and stopped just before the tunnel.  We might just have got through the last lock by 18.00 when the locks close for the night, but if we didn't there is nowhere suitable for us to tie up.  And seeing it was already cold and miserable we didn't feel like travelling till so late. 

Huge fields of rape and big black rain clouds