Up the river Rhone

We heared rumours about the strong current in the river. People usually dramatise and tell how bad things are. We started out and the first part up past Arles to Beaucaire took us a day and we averaged about 3 knots which is ok. The next day it was worse. Now the current was up to five knots and in certain stretches we were down to .7 knots. The old ladies with wheel chairs overtook us. Not a very funny day. We were working our ways for about 12 hours each day. But we reached Lyon and had done the worst part.