Our first stop after Rouen was at the Moulin d'Andé where Claire had learned how to swim in her youth. She was surprised that it was still there!

 
We pass Chateau Gaillard and stop at the Andelys to visit our old friends the Tards.
 
E. Galois is tied to a barge across a small arm of the river and we rowed across where Annie and Louis-Martin Tard came by car to pick us up .
 
We spent the day at their house and were joined by some other long time common friends Estelle and Philo Cerdelli.
 

In the evening they drove us back to the Andelys and they took this picture as we rowed across to E. Galois in the dark.
 

 
Three days later we arrived at Chatou, a suburb of Paris, where some of our relatives live. We tied to a free floating dock provided for transients by the municipality.
 
The next day we were joined by some niece and a nephew for the last leg to the center of Paris.
 
We tied up to a floating dock at the "Champs Elysées Harbor" a facility of the Touring Club de France next to the Concorde Bridge in the center of Paris.

 
In Paris we spent almost three weeks, from the 4th to the 21st of August.
 
This is the vue looking upstream from the Concorde Bridge. The towers of Notre Dame are just barely visible above the Bridge.
 
This is the vue downstream from the Concorde Bridge. Our location was absolutely fantastic, we could bicycle all around. It would have been perfect except for the wake from the Bateaux Mouches!
 
We entertained family and friends aboard. Here we have Estelle and Philo Cerdelli for lunch. Some of our friends who came for lunch got seasick due to the wake from the Bateaux Mouches!

 
On August 21st we left the "Champs Elysées Harbor", heading upstream to catch the Canal de Briare that would take us South. Here we are about to pass under the Pont au Change the first bridge to the Isle de la Cité.
 
We are now alongside of Notre Dame,
 
which soon disapears astern.
 

We leave the River Seine at Mannes to cross central France via smaler canals

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