France

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 [...]

Where to next? This short passage turned into something of an interesting stuff up and certainly one for the books. We’d been watching the [...]

With strong winds blowing in from the west we ended up staying in Camaret-sur-Mer for five days. Great walking along ridgelines. Though the [...]

Early morning departure Our departure from L’Aber Wrac’h came just as it got light enough to see the crab pots and nets that were peppered [...]

Station Biologique de Roscoff It was market day in Roscoff so our first task was to resupply (banana supplies had gotten critically low) at [...]

More tidal streams Our departure from Lézardrieux was an early-ish one with lines dropped at 0600 to ensure that we caught the best of [...]

Hiding in Lézardrieux Our next stop was Lézardrieux, a scant 5 nm to the south east from île-de-Bréhat. Here we planned to stop for [...]