My sore throat developed into a case of "man flu” so I stayed on the barge for most of the day, resting and sleeping. In the evening, we got a good thunderstorm in Moissac. The crane at the right had only appeared a few days earlier to start work on replacing the roof of a house near the port that had been struck by lightning a few weeks earlier in a thunderstorm. We kept wondering if a tall crane in a thunderstorm was tempting fate just a bit too much.