Welcome to La Rochelle What a strange change! In September, Saint-Martin de Ré was a very busy, little village with lots of tourists, events everywhere, shops, groceries and of course the food markets always open-even on Sundays. And then, suddenly one day later, it happened to be October first - everything was closed? We don’t …
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Sunday afternoon the wind finally took a break, so we decided to go ashore to stretch our legs and have a look at the other side of the island. It was a lovely walk at the beachside with amazingly beautiful houses built ashore. The trouble was the wind only slept for a little while. By …
Sunday morning we finally left Bourgenay pretty early in the morning after finishing all the things aboard we had to do. We decided to sail for a couple of weeks as long as the weather is still comfortable and before heading to La Rochelle. Our destination was Ile d’Yeu, Port - Joinville which we visited …
After a roller coaster August in Austin with all the stuff coming up like getting rid off all our furnitures and goods, cars, scooter and personel stuff you can't take on a boat, we made it finally to Bourgenay by September 10th. BIG THANK YOU to all our friends in Austin, helping us during this …
We left La Rochelle early for the final 30 sm trip to Port Bourgenay. Even the best holidays do come to an end and the last day sailing was sweetened with great wind and waves. The marina was pretty busy and strong winds were pushing from the back. So we provided some entertainment (aka: …
In the morning we took the last (for Benoit) short leg to La Rochelle. The arrival at La Rochelle with a boat is always impressive, especially when you enter the Vieux Port (old port) through the entrance towers. The visitor platforms are in the town centre. Arriving at around lunchtime the kids enjoyed themselves …
The kids were still asleep as we lifted the anchor heading to Ile d’Aix an island 19 miles away to have another stopover to finally get to La Rochelle where Benoit was going to leave us to go back to Paris. It was a great sailing trip and just when we thought it can’t …
In the late afternoon we anchored in a bay at Ile de Ré. And as it was quite a hot day we all enjoyed a jump into the very cold blue. (At least it cools you down within seconds 😉 ). We closed the day with el capitano’s pizza. Sunday we decided to stay …
Having the kids on board is sooooooo nice ( mummy is happy 🙂 )! We had a relaxing Friday with grocery shopping at a beautiful (beautiful because of the food 😉 ) market and strolling around Les Sables. And of course slowly preparing for the next game! What a success :-), the French team won …
In between our leg to Noirmoutier we changed our minds and decided to head to another island called Ile d´Yeu. The Reason was the lack of winds which were not very promising for the next couple of days too. As we anyhow wanted to travel to this island we thought it is nicer to explore …
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