Downstream

On Thursday I've reached the highest point of this voyage - 360m. The slow crawl upstream is at an end, from now on it's going downstream only. It's still more than 800km to the Mediterranean, but I feel like I can already smell the sea. Yesterday my brother and mother came to visit, and we had dinner in Epinal. It was my mother's 70th birthday, and this her birthday-trip. They also brought my Liferaft and Emergency radio beacon, which returned late from service. It's good to have friends & family that help out when things don't go quite according to plan. Today we will go together on the boat to Corre, where I want to leave Vespina until Wednesday. I have to return home for a few days for some last paperwork that wasn't important enough to delay the start of the voyage but has to be completed before I can be away for months.