September 2024

The last leg to Les Sables d'Olonne The conditions for the second leg of our trip to Les Sables d’Olonne were meant to be a [...]

The weather finally calms down After five days on Belle-Île the storm conditions had abated and our much-anticipated appointment with Alubat, for a factory tour [...]

Off to a new island After a bouncy night in our now unpleasantly exposed bay we headed across to Belle-Île-en-Mer, a couple of hours [...]

Another tidal stream We left Vannes on a sunny morning and motored down the river to the Golfe du Morbihan. Out there, on the [...]

Motoring into Vannes A couple of hours further east of our anchorage off Gavrinis lies Vannes with its fantastically preserved and impressive walled old [...]

Into the Golfe du Morbihan A short and unremarkable sail took us from La Trinité-sur-Mer around the Locmariaquer peninsula and into the Golfe du [...]

Menhirs, dolmens and tumuli La Trinité-sur-Mer was another of our Neolithic stops. Indeed, for us it more or less functioned as the epicentre of [...]

Off to La Trinité-sur-Mer We departed Concarneau at about 0800, the first of a swarm of boats making space for the big regatta that [...]

Lesconil turned out to be a (probably) dull but slightly charming little place. All very pretty and all very quaint. We had a short [...]

French or European weather models? We enjoyed a very pleasant and quiet night on the mooring bouy at St Evette, however, the forecast for [...]