France

I’m sitting here drinking our last bottle of shandy and considering the fact that, despite making shandy a priority on our shopping trips (they’re £2 for 10 bottles in Super U-…

The sunny, warm weather we’d hoped for this week utterly failed to materialise. We left Sables d’Olonne on Monday morning, as planned, and it seemed that half the boats in…

The last week has moved pretty slowly, which is in keeping with our general pace of life at the moment. After leaving La Rochelle on Monday we motored a whole…

Matt and Kaitlyn flew back to London on Friday, and since then Nick and I have been trying to get out of “holiday mode” and into a more settled routine. So,…

We arrived in Ile d’Yeu mid afternoon on Sunday and, in the warm, calm conditions, moored up to our allocated pontoon with textbook perfect technique. I even managed that trick…

After 3 nights in Belle Ile we sailed south this morning, leaving bright and early at 6am. This is not by choice, but we’re dictated by the weather and if…

After a 40 hour passage, we arrived in Concarneau as dawn was breaking on Tuesday morning. I was unceremoniously pulled from my warm, comfortable bed at 5:30am as we motored…