All alone at Givet, the frontier town with Belgium. Where is everybody? We expected commercials here as well as perhaps a couple of hardy pleasureboaters. We liked this ancient place with its foreboding citadel high on the hills in front of us, it's little streets and stone houses.

The weather's turning cold and we've been very lucky with the lack of rainfall on the Meuse at this time of year. Time to push on and get off this unpredictable river while it's still behaving.