Villaine

We spent a couple of days in Crouesty - the rain was torrential at times. On thursday yachts were coming into the marina at 2pm with their navigation lights on as it was so dark - needless to say they also looked thoroughly miserable!!

We left yesterday and arrived at the lock at the start of the Villaine with just 15 mins to spare or another 2 hour wait - the wind was on our nose most of the way and the trip took rather longer than we'd expected. However we're here now on the right side of the Arzal barrier, just given Cabernet a good wash down and will be leaving shortly for La Roche Bernard, the local tourist town in the area. Tomorrow we're heading up to Foleux which will be Cabernet's home port for the forseeable future.

The next challenge will be to locate our car which Colin and Pat left at Foleux before they headed off on their jolly with Good Mood4. We'll then be at the end of the first stage of our Grand Tour.

The ferry is booked for early wednesday morning from Calais - we'll be leaving here on tuesday and hopefully seeing a little more of France as we drive up to the ferry port.

We'll be back again on 24 June when part 2 of the tour starts - by then the holiday season should be in full swing because its certainly been low season here so far.