Saturday
A late start and a walk into Deauville - WOW !!!
It's like Paris !!!
Very posh - lots of designer label shops - the first of many was Louis Vuton.
All neat and tidy streets - almost manicured - too much really.
A market where prices were scary - high.
One stall selling bespoke violins!
All way past our budget - not even a local supermarket - too posh for that.
We walked over the bridge across the river that divides Doauville from Trouville and back to reality.
Much more down to earth - a supermarket - and a row of eight or ten seafood stalls that were the best we have seen anywhere in the world.
Each stall had massive displays from which you could choose and lots of people eating their choice at high tables with wine and French bread.
We bought good size prawns for our seafood curry for tea.
I bought 6 oysters for Sunday lunch.
We walked down to the Trouville beach and had lunch in a busy restaurant - Jackie had menu of the day - I had mussels and chips.
We fell foul of the language - Jackie's linge of beef turned out to be tongue done in a gravy with gerkins!!
Jackie didn't like it at all and finished off most of my mussels while I ate the tongue - not good.
Shame really - we were both looking forward to a nice meal out.
The wind was due to be force 5 to 7 on Saturday going down on Sunday but raining all day so we decided to stay put until Monday before moving on to Saint Vaast .
The boat was jerked around quite heavily at midnight and I was out sorting better mooring ropes and extra fenders - sorted.
Sunday
A lazy day - A good clean up all round - passage planning while Jackie watched a film.
Raining - drizzle - cold - I lit the fire - snug as a bug!
Mike and Jackie Smethurst
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