Sailing around the World, ( presently in Reunion Island )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Thu 28 Oct 2010 05:20
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Wednesday 27th OCTOBER
2010
Up early, and no blog typing today, we are
going off early, well early is around 09.00hrs,
even though we ( Skipper and Aileen ) are up since
06.00hrs, to do the blog and emails , plus having breakfast, shower, and doll
ourselves up would
normally take us to 10.30 hrs, but today we
are off early.
We squeezed ourselves into the sardine tin and
reved up and took off down the motorway heading south this time towards
"St-Gills-les-bains"
There we found a beautifull beach and immidiatly
went for a swim, We spent some time wandering around the beach afterwards and
the nearby marina and harbour, there was also a pond where you could rent a
small electric boat and scoot around the place in it, It reminded us
of the " Bumpers "
at the merries long ago. It was full of Mothers and
children with the odd granny and grandad, ( Just like us )
11.30 We wandered up the beautifull village
and had a cup of coffee, plus the usual cakes, sausage rolls, and lots of other
goodies, you know
the slimmers diet stuff...... designed to put on
millions of calories in one easy dose.
12.30hrs We took off again , still going south,
this time towards "St Pierre" and from there we were going to head up the
mountains again
towards " Cilaos " this place must be
about 2,500m above sea level.
We stopped many times on the way to admire the
scene, the Sheer scale of the mountains, sooooo steep and jagged, and the
Valleys in all directions
plus all the shades of green, 41 in all we
could count.
At the summit, we had a beer, visited the church,
and wandered around for an hour or two. before returning down the mountains
again,
Again this was a beautifull village and we really
enjoyed the visit.
Mind you, Terry and Skipper observed a few
layabouts under a foot bridge , drinking beer and breaking bottles,
We discussed this before agreeing that as this
problem exists in most countries, ( And they are protected by the " doo gooders"
and people who make
money out od protecting their rights ) All
countries should get together and build an army like " The French Forign
Legion " and round up all these layabouts and send them off. This might
help protect the rights of the ordinary " Joe Soap " who the dooo Gooders and
the like seem have forgotten about.
We paid a visit to St-Leu on our return journey,
but no beach, so we continued to the boat and Collette did a chicken and mustard
sauce dinner with creamed potatoes, We had a couple of beers , and an
early night.
Neil spent the day with Oisin , Joe and Jarad from
" Brown eyed Girl " they drove to the Volcano and paid a visit ot the
beach as well .
The day before, Neil spent the day with Joacham ,
Yutta, and Eline from " Chessie " and they did a tour of the Island
.
Thats all from the South Indian Ocean for today
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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