Two things had now become high priority on the list of potential disasters, and in no particular order. 1 : The fridge was starting to give all the signals of wanting to die at any given moment which meant warm wine and even worse, warm beer. and if that wasn’t enough. 2 : A storm READ MORE

St-Martin-de-Ré on île de Ré is without doubt the ‘jewel in the crown’ marina on the Atlantic coast and one must not be put off by the narrow entrance, high walls and tight bends, it’s worth it!   It is one of the smaller marinas and one we were told that it was highly unlikely that READ MORE