When we left Ft. We picked La Rochelle because whenever we mentioned that we were going to visit, friends and strangers alike would wax poetic about how La Rochelle is such a wonderful place. As we learned more about European charts, we came to understand that 0 meters is the depth at the lowest tide of the year and the measuring of high tides starts at 0 and goes up from there; there are no minus tides on European charts. Whew, STARR could enter the old moorage basins during the period of hours before or after high tide.
We also learned that the old fishing basin has a gate, like a lock, which closes and maintains depths of more than the 6. We were tired when we arrived at La Rochelle and tired of moving all of the time. It had taken us five weeks to cross the Atlantic, stopping in Bermuda and the Azores on the way.
In our two years in the South Pacific we were constantly traveling across huge distances a passage was frequently nm. Our plan for this summer was to explore the West Coast of France, heading North up the coast of Brittany and Normandy and finally wintering at St. We landed on Sunday, 6 July and our friends, who traveled with us from Florida, left on Monday.
Le Marche is a vision of abundance and artistic presentation. The Vendors are the farmers who actually grow or produce what they sell, and it is clear that they feel a great deal of pride in presenting their product. You will be happy to hear that we quickly overcame this obstacle and now shop like a native French person. Because of the War in Iraq, we were a little nervous about how the French people would feel about Americans cruising in France.
Christian had to think about it; there is a huge demand for space in the summertime and fleets of racing sailboats were already scheduled to fill the Bassin at various time. Later we met his wife, Nicole, because I desperately needed a haircut after crossing the ocean and Nicole is a hairdresser in the lovely village of Ars en Re, on the Ile de Re.
