Alex and I arrived into La Rochelle airport at 9.35am, where Karen and Paul kindly collected us and took us to the boat. Kevin had been very busy and the boat was looking lovely. I noticed one of his first jobs had been fitting our fishing rod holders / outriggers! There were lots of signs of progress actually and most things had already found a home. Alex got the guided tour whilst I caught up with Ash and Laura. Karen and Paul handed over all the final paperwork and said their goodbyes. We said a huge thanks to them, particularly for the last couple of days as their help had certainly made quite a potentially stressful and certainly monumental day for us go much smoother. We certainly benefited from their experience and connections in the area too.
Next, after a very brief sit down for a cuppa, the girls were dispatched to the local hypermarket (as the fridge contained only a loaf of bread, eggs and four bottles of champagne kindly donated for the celebrations!). Whilst the boys continued with the long list of jobs Kevin had listed. Ash, Laura and their hire car having been co-opted into service already from their holiday! The gender lines seem to have been drawn as oftem seems to happen on boats as generally the girls spent the day shopping, cleaning and preparing food, whilst the boys did engineering. Another good days progress and some much nicer sunny weather followed by a fantastic meal out now Alex had arrived to sample the lovely Frech food we'd been raving about. Kevin also got to try the seafood platter now he had Alex his fellow seafood addict with him. Ash, Laura and I looked on in amazement at them eating through Oysters, crabs, mussels, whelks, clams, winkles etc etc./span>
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