Ep24 | Bay of Biscay, Part 2: Exploring the Quiberon Peninsula & sailing with Chiquita
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- In this episode we find ourselves in Quiberon. The Quiberon Peninsula is a tourist hotspot in Brittany with around 30 km of coastline. This part of Brittany is known for its beautiful long beaches. However, we only scrape the surface of this gem as we only stop for 1 night before sailing farther south to Ile d'Yeu. In just the short time we have, tho, we discover a little of the area’s cute neighborhoods, art, a fairytale castle and the rugged coastline.
The boys, including Anna & Sergey’s boys, of course, found everything to be a new playground! 😉 In their perspective there was much more to explore!
…(Alexi plucking figs from tree) Like mother, like son!
Back at the boat, all the boys were busy creating their own language called Rikki Tikki, while we adults got ready for the next passage to I’l de Y’eau.
As you can see, we set sail before Chiquita - and they passed us up, as usual, BUT - wait and see who wins “the race” (which, any sailor knows - whenever 2 sailboats sail the same way, it’s an unspoken understanding that it’s a race! 😊 )
As you can probably hear - we were sailing against the wind…ideal for us - for speed…NOT so ideal for a catamaran!
We were racing along!...and the dolphins love speed and came out to play!!
We arrived Ile d’Yeu just before sunset…and BEFORE Chiquita! A first for us…That was a little satisfying, we must admit.
What a beautiful passage!
Btw - on the way, we discovered that an amazing weather-window to cross the Bay of Biscay diagonally opened up! We decided to skip touring the island and sail on early the next morning. That meant we would have to leave, Chiquita, though - they planned to take it easy with many small stops down the coast of Europe, but our goal was to make it to the Canaries as fast as possible! So, this was our chance!
Time to prepare for a 2-day passage, our very first - which seemed like a looong passage at this time 😊
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2:30 YEAH! That's the kind of "beach" both of your kids need. 😀
Need more popcorn for the next episode. 😀
You make good videos. That looked like an old refrigerator or freezer y’all were dragging up from the water - if so, it may well have been washed out to sea from some Caribbean island during a hurricane, and carried to the shores of France by the prevailing currents.
7:44 And again, Niko is the only one in shorts. 😀
1:26 Great! Just imagine headlines in Oslo newspapers "Moother of three arrested for stealing figs from EU". **shaking head** 😀
7:09 DO NOT poke the Russian bear (cub).😀
3:00 There is an old Russian joke. A little boy comes home from his first diving practice. His mom asks him, "How was your practice. Did you dive a lot?". The boys says, "It was GREAT! We dove a lot! The coach said if we behave, he'll pour water into the pool".
😅
A pretty rocky coast, with a handsome castle. Makes a suitable athletic theater for the boys, who perform daredevil leaps and Atlas Stone lifts. It's a race now to the next town- no yellow lines, speed limits, or cops. Love those dolphins and sunsets. Favorable winds, but no small feat to beat a cat... so good job, crew! Aww, sad to leave Chiquita behind. But we _do_ look forward to the Caribbean. Have a safe passage to the Canaries.
Thank you, Frank! A fun sail indeed! Exciting for us to take our first longer passage! Thanks for following along and for your support! :) Appreciate you.
2:54 Where is Espen's shoes!? Let me guess, sunk in the sand and you never found them!
9:50 You silly goofs! Where do you think it cam from!? 😀 Some monsieur threw it out on the beach and it was washed away by the tide. You will have to take it ALL the way UP.
7:12 CAREFUL WITH YOUR TOES!?? So hearnia is fine? 😀
17:47 Does he eat anything BUT sweets and cakes?
Yes, this is just the few episodes he does... Nowadays he doesn't eat any candy or cookies😊
10:48 Somebody reads a lot of Kipling to their kids. Personally, I never liked Riki-Tiki-Tavi. A bit too much murder for my liking. 😀
Maybe Chiquita's boys read it? Didn't know about that book, actually - sounds intense... Not our taste either.
2:00 What is that?
It was a salamander, but they didn't get sold of it... Probably for the better 🫣😉