We thought we should make the most of the extra time with a car to go out and about a bit. So on Friday, all three of us went to visit Le Cr...
Well, we left Port Joinville as planned at around 7am, and had a long motor in almost zero wind to Piriac. Conditions were hot and calm and ...
Sometime between nine and 11 years ago I bought a bottle of Norit handwash detergent in Spain. Today I finished the very last dregs on washi...
Ben arrived on Saturday afternoon by train as planned, and on Sunday we set off rather early (by his standards) for L'Herbaudière on the...
Well, we managed to get Sam off the boat to go down to the Charente, and yesterday we got him back on. In between he has been the most wobbl...
This morning started with the news of a hung parliament. Knowing I had to get up early to take Guy to Nantes airport, I resisted checking th...
I've been a bit lax about posting to the blog so far this year. Life has been somewhat full. My father sadly died on April 23. He wa...
Dear friends & family Despite the delights of Brexit and Trump, 2016 has been a pretty good year for us. Sam and Camilla started the y...
Well we got home late on 18 September as planned, and since then things have been a bit busy, but I'm not quite sure how 11 days has gon...
I hadn't realised it was five days since my last post. Once you settle into a mooring the days seem to pass surprisingly fast. One sli...
My uncle Luke died peacefully at around 11am on Friday. I don't remember that he was ever a sailor or interested in boats. Nevertheles...
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I have a mental block about place names in Brittany beginning with P. I kept forgetting Piriac, and now we have been to Pornic as well, I ke...
Media vita in morte sumus. I only have one uncle, my father's younger brother. Just a month or so ago, after a very long and slow decli...
Dying creek at Nourmoutier-en-Ile Having visited the boulangerie and the laundrette on Tuesday morning it was a bit later than I planne...
