2017 day 22 (23rd September Nancy to Toul)

A fairly short travel today as Toul is only a 20 minute train ride from Nancy and we did not have to be at the boat until 3.00 so we enjoyed a bonus morning to look around Nancy more. Started with a typical French breakfast at a little cafe - juice, coffee (shot not cappacino) breadroll with jam and croissant. Wonderful just sitting in these cafes eating typical food and listening to the beautiful language.

We returned to the beautiful town square but a bit like playschool we picked another gate at the corner and entered a beautiful park full of chestnut trees changing into their autumn colours and dropping leaves and nuts.
Back to the hotel to check out and then headed for a little street in the old town which was lined with  cafés where we enjoyed a lunch of - guess What?  - quiche Lorraine-  seeing as we are actually in Lorraine!

Train was leaving at 2.34 so headed for the station, caught the train (exactly on time again) and 20 minutes later we reached Toul. Had our first navigation mix up as the instructions on getting from the station to the boat's mooring were quite misleading and we ended up having to ring the boat and they met us at the tourist office.

Had the usual introductions and briefings and then a lovely dinner. Boat is actually quite large and cabin reasonably roomy and all very comfortable. Tomorrow we ride into Toul for a tour and it is a fairly short day. Pretty good Start!