Quick post - back in Carentan and lifted out on to dry land for routine maintenance and repairs. Seems very cold after Portugal and we cannot use the boat toilet on dry land so we have a 10 minute walk to the facilities (albeit very good ones). However, we are getting there. New rudder bearings on order from South Africa and boat toilet completely overhauled with new pipes. Toe rail oiled and decks will be the same on the next sunny day, We should be here until the end of April then it's Cherbourg, Guernsey then off towards Biscay stopping at a few pretty harbours along the way.
It's not all work and no play here. We are allowing ourselves time off and have been walking around the marshes. We cycled 30km to Utah Beach, one of the D Day landing sites - a lovely cycle ride and quite sobering to imagine those landings .and all the lives lost during WW2. Hopefully a look even further back next week when we visit Bayeux and see the tapestry.
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