We’ve been busy running boat handling courses on the Thames.  4 courses so far this winter (each with 2 boats) have seen Clidive members travelling through the Thames Barrier… up through Tower Bridge… … planning passages and learning to drive…

Today we stopped for lunch at the outdoor centre on Frioul. It’s like the Mountbatten Centre in Plymouth, save that it has good food and the sun shines. We enjoyed an excellent moules frites, a couple of bottles of wine,…

After le Veyron we took a box of cheese and some vin rose to the lighthouse and had a leisurely lunch. Most pleasant.  We then jumped off the boat whilst still moored up at the quayside, turned left, swam for…