St Peter Port Guernsey.
We woke Sunday morning to the Sound of a market setting up. The busy seafront road is closed to traffic, the Victoria quay is lined with food vans, tables are set up between them. A stage is set up and by 12 ° Clock there’s almost a party atmosphere with bands playing on stage, The whole market is buzzing with people and the stalls do a fine trade. 5:30pm and there a frantic rush to remove all the marker stalls and bang on 6pm the road is open again to normal traffic.. We’re still tired from Saturdays efforts so retire early after dinner.
Having applied for permission to arrive in France and had my form stamped, all via the Internet, we have effectively cleared French immigration even before leaving Guernsey.
Monday, we leave the marina at 11 am as the sill uncovers and move to nearby Soldiers Bay, where we anchor for the rest of the day and overnight.
Tuesday we make our passage to Treguier in Northern Brittany, about a 10 hour trip. There’s a whole lot of isolated rocks to avoid along this journey, but other than missing those it is a pretty straightforward crossing.
Our only incident was crossing close behind this german flagged yacht which was making way with no-one in the cockpit. He did pop up from below a bit later on.
Even though we didn’t arrive until 7:00 pm, the harbourmaster was there to catch our lines and greet us with a hearty welcome.
Wednesday morning and what do you know, it’s market day in Treguier. Now the French certainly know how to market. This one covered about 4 streets, the market square and two separate car parks. We spent the morning there and in the afternoon a visit to the Cathedral and later doing some window shopping.
An hour of rain spoilt the fun a little, but on the plus side it saved us the job of washing the boat down.
We’ll stay another day in Treguier, but more of that later.
4 Kidneys and a Wonky Leg 