Brest

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Karen & Richard
Mon 13 Aug 2007 20:46

Monday 13th August – Brest

48:23.553N 4:25.816W

 

This morning we awoke to sun once again.  Richard pottered off to the marina shop to get us some croissant and pain au chocolat for breakfast whilst I made the coffee.  These turned out to be enormous and so breakfast turned into brunch. 

 

The condition of the facilities has improved after a clean and so we feel a bit happier with the marina – it must have been a weekend thing.

 

There is some very bad weather due to go through over the next couple of days with gale force winds expected.  (The marina has now moved all the outside boats inside the wave barrier - we currently have two smaller boat rafted onto the outside of us.)

 

Our ‘plan du jour’ was to do a couple of ‘outside jobs’ on the boat today whilst the weather was fine before the rain arrived this afternoon. 

 

However, the first job was to trek to the supermarket.  By the time we had toured the trolley around the outskirts of Brest, having taken a few detours due to my lack of any sense of direction, found the supermarket, shopped, and trundled back, it was just starting to rain as we got back to the boat, so no outside jobs being done today as it has continued to rain ever since. 

 

I had a chat to the lady in the marina office this morning – she is only working there for the next month and then she is becoming an English teacher near Paris.  Anyway, she thought that we should be able to get the wi-fi where we are moored, so she gave me a login id and password and violà, Richard has been able to get onto the net this afternoon.  So, if you come to the marina at Brest, try to berth close to the marina office.

 

All in all, a big improvement today (except the weather, of course, which is now deteriorating); free wi-fi has to be a bonus and is extremely useful for us anorak weather-watchers.

 

As the wind and rain seems to catch up with us wherever we go, we’re thinking of hiring ourselves out for external events when we get back.  Organisers can pay us to go somewhere else so that it doesn’t rain at their event.  Or perhaps we could set up a few lakes in the desert for trout fishing?

 

 

Goulet de Brest (entrance to the Rade)

 

Off to the supermarché