Winter Home

So we are finally here and getting ready to leave Erica for the cold winter months!! The anchorage from hell was a changed place this Tuesday - flat calm and gently rocking us to sleep. Up at 5-30 and a flat calm sea greeted us - perfect - or so we thought  until dense fog descended after 1 hour. We decided to press on but did not see the entrance buoy until 100 yards away. It was gong to be difficult negotiating the  channel in the canal. Fortunately fate was kind and, as quickly as it had descended, the fog lifted just as we passed the entrance buoy and we had a great sail down the 8 miles of scenic canal.

Carentan is very pretty and sheltered - though at present we are busy putting the boat to bed as we are leaving for UK then Portugal on 9th November to spend winter in the sun before resuming our journey in April.

We cannot use the electricity here as it is dodgy and our system is sensitive to dodgy as it is not good for aluminium. We are learning to use the generator - good practice for the voyage to come. We hope to explore the beaches here as the battle for Normandy took place here and there are lots of interesting museums and monuments. We have also bought more walking maps. Scruffbag has lost shedloads of weight but wine and cheese are having the opposite effect on me.