and another, a well-known artist, Jean-Claude Adenin, had lived in La Gaude, the small village that Ben and Suzy and at one time Jemma and Kevin lived in.  He was astonished saying that no-one has ever heard of La Gaude never mind been there.  Google him, he paints with both hands, simultaneously!  His work is fabulous.

We didn’t manage to take any particularly good photographs of the fishing village just next to the moorings but here is the best we got…..

There was a small general store and a bakery where they sold copies of the main daily papers that had been emailed and printed so we had a heavenly few hours back on the boat one morning eating pain au chocolat and reading The Times.

By mid-afternoon it was time for a cup of tea under our new Shade Tree awning…….

On our final morning we woke to the sound of much motorboat activity around us and looked out to find a tanker delivering fuel.  A flexible pipeline had been floated to the fuel tanks on shore while the security boat stayed close to make sure nobody inadvertently sailed or motored over it.