It feels very funny (and nice) to spend a whole day on land after 674km on inland waters (and 86 locks). After a copious lunch we walked through the Promenade des Halles, a beautiful avenue of plane trees planted in 1771, nearly 1 km long where we looked at "Des Forets et des Hommes" a photograph exhibition initiated by the foundation Good Planet to show the beauty of the world and its fragility too. The 70 photographs indeed very beautiful and thought provoking were built around 6 themes: discovery, inhabitnats, uses, services threats and solutions. Most enlightening.
The evening was spent back on the boat and the heat, still unbearable until the storm at last broke. By that time we were in bed and all the portholes were open...a few floods were found.