Saturday we wake to neighbours: 3 other boats have pulled in overnight. We select a canal boat and bus tour for the morning and it's great to have lots of information. Who would know that behind the canal houses are gardens (with dope growing?!). And that some houses lean sideways from subsidence but others lean forward to avoid the windows being broken when hoisting furniture up (the stairs are very steep and narrow). That 200,000 bikes get stolen each year and 10,000 of them end up in the canals.
We join the ship in time for lunch, we pass through the first of 68 locks, eat a delicious and gf 5 course dinner, then listen to an excellent violin/cello/guitar combo. They're from Brussels so jumped on board somewhere and will be dropped off somewhere else to get a taxi home by 2 am.
We fall asleep the the gentle hum and vibration of the engines.
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