After a thundery night, we spent the morning just pottering around the boat, doing things like filling the water tank and cleaning the drawer on the wheelhouse cabinet, which over the years had become a repository for all kinds of junk that we didn't know where to put. Rita and I then cycled to a Vide Grenier in a Dijon suburb, where we perused the stalls and eventually picked up a handheld vacuum cleaner to replace the one already on the boat which had ceased to work. We weren't sure whether the new one would work but at only 4euro we had little to lose. When we got it back to the boat, we charged the battery and it did work, but not strongly enough to actually pick anything up!

In the afternoon, we decided to go for a ride around the central city and find some places that we would need to go to in the next week or so. The first place we went to was the Les Halles Markets, which we heard would be open this afternoon. But when we got there they were closed, apart from a few stalls along the outside of the market hall. Nonetheless, the market hall building itself looked quite impressive and reminded us a lot of the Queen Victoria Markets in Melbourne.

We then headed over to the Dijon Prefecture building which we would need to go to for the Carte des Sejour interview. Not a very interesting building, but at least we now knew where it was located.

Our next destination was the Dijon Opera House. Not quite as impressive as the Sydney Opera House, but some interesting features such as the spiral stairs and the bridge from the entrance doors across a busy road with tram tracks and over to the main hall.

We then made our way back though the central city and ended up at the Botanical Gardens. Not very big and a bit rectangular, but with some colourful plantings. I took some photos to send to my daughter Emma who had just taken a job as an apprentice gardener in the Castlemaine Botanical Gardens in Central Victoria.