Today we biked through another very cold morning to a Benedictine Abbey in Ferrieres-en-Gatinais. The abbey was the center of the city and founded in the 7th Century. Had a great pork pate sandwich for lunch. 2.70 euro.
Afterwards we biked to a war memorial in the middle of farm fields honoring an american airplane crew that crashed bringing supplies to the french resistance. A short ride after that we went to a glass blowing factory. Then a beautiful ride along the canal to meet the barge in Neronville, which has no town at all nearby, just forest.
Afte dinner we went to a little house next to the lock where the old lady there runs a bar inside. One of my fellow travelers, Mike, knocked on her doors and soon enough she cranked open a window and opened the bar for us. The place was her house and very old and cob webby with stone walls. You had to get a bucket full of water to flush the toilet. We stayed laughing and dancing to an old 1970s juke box that had really old 45s in it. I was in charge of changing the records by jamming some buttons in the back of the machine and occassionally just lifting open the whole thing.. Most songs were european except a few Carpenters songs, which our captain sang quite well.
17 miles today
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