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We are a retired American couple living in France, enjoying the good life with our cats. Our house is in a small hamlet among the Ste. Foy vines. We also have a sailboat that the male half of the spousal unit sailed across the Atlantic in the summer of 08. When the weather warms we will start to visit the sailing ports of Europe. Our stories chronicle our life in France: the good life, the hard life, and the sailing life.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Shifting Over to Petillant



Tomorrow RXC and I head to the boat for a shakedown cruise to Ile de Re. Before we leave port there is work to be done: wash parts of the exterior, put up the canvas, install a new chart plotter, and upgrade to a quiet fresh water head. Once finished we will cruise north for a few days. We need to be back at the house for a day or 2 before the middle of May, so for this first trip out the cats will stay at home. They feel deprived!


This is my final posting on Ste. Foy Bordeaux for a few months. Jump to http://www.petillant-at-sea.blogspot.com to follow our summer cruising of the Atlantic coast of France and then on to England, Scotland for the Matlcruise, and Ireland. We are hoping that it will be easier to find hotspots in the UK than it was in Spain last year meaning that we will be able to post our stories and lots of photos on Flickr.


Ste. Foy Bordeaux should resume in at the end of August or in early September. Have a great summer!

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