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<\/a>There was a break for breakfast of course, and having worked all the way through the morning afterwards, it was 13:20 when I went into town for my dejeunette<\/em>.<\/p>\nDown at the fish-processing plant I was treated to some excitement. The first fishing boat in was unloading and it look as if they had a big pile of crabs.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t appropriate to go for a closer look because they were working quickly, so I had to content myself from here.
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Here’s a photo of Victor Hugo<\/em> and what’s interesting is not what’s there in the photo but what’s not there. Yes, Granville<\/em> seems to have gone out for another trip somewhere.<\/p>\n And I shouldn’t be surprised if Victor Hugo<\/em> will be joining her at some point because her bridge was busy. There were three our four officers having a discussion on board her He’d come out of the Port Authority office and was clearly looking very official, so as he strolled around the harbour I fell in with him.<\/p>\n Having asked the right questions, I can tell you that the gates open 105 minutes before High Tide and close 105 minutes afterwards.<\/p>\n And furthermore, he told me that there has been no gravel boat in port for over two months and he has no idea when the next one will be arriving One thing I’ve been meaning to do is to chat to the skipper but once more the ship was deserted and no-one was about. So that was that.<\/p>\n Instead, I went and picked up my dejeunette<\/em> from La Mie Caline and came back home for lunch. Once more, there was a light out in the Baie de Mont St Michel over by Cancale on the Brittany coast, and I’ve seen enough of these now to be able to make an educated guess that it’s a trawler-type of fishing boat.<\/p>\n And here you are. I cropped the image and enlarged it when i returned home and sure enough, I was right about that too. There was another yacht today out there in the Baie de Mont St Michel. Not as extravagant as the one out there yesterday with the bright red sail but still nice enough.<\/p>\n But what wasn’t there though was Thora<\/em>. She must have cleared off quite rapidly as soon as the harbour gates were open. Back here, I had another little … errr … relax – something that is annoying me because I was doing so well just now – and then pressed on with my project.<\/p>\n There was another brief pause because our “outside broadcast” from the Bain des Manchots<\/em> – the Swim of the Giant Penguins – at Donville les Bains was being broadcast. And for those of you who missed it, you can HEAR THE PODCAST<\/a> at your convenience, provided that you take your phone there with you.<\/p>\n It was 19:20 when I finally finished my radio programme – it had taken me far longer than I expected seeing as I’d made really good progress this morning.<\/p>\n What with being late I had another helping of the curry – lengthening it with some frozen spinach and one of the remaining endives.<\/p>\n Alone again on my evening walk, and my run was agony. I was ready to give up long before I hit the ramp although I pushed on nevertheless.<\/p>\n That good spell of health that I’ve had this last couple of months is coming to an end unfortunately . All the signs are there.<\/p>\n<\/a>The harbour gates were closed so I went that way round over the path on top.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>While you admire the photo of Thora<\/em> here, I’ll tell you about my encounter with a guy from the Port Authority.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>Thora was there and all loaded up. Those big builders’ bags had been all loaded on board.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>The afternoon walk was taken in the cold and the wind (although not as windy as it has been).<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>And that wasn’t all of the excitement either.<\/p>\n
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