After lunch we headed for the Tourist Information. Well, talk about helpful. They contacted the chandler in Lorient, which incidentally is a wee bit out of the way, but this wasn’t a problem. They told us to go to the end of the block and wait there; a very old red car would arrive and take us to the chandlers. Quite bizarre, however, a lovely woman from U Ship chandlers arrived and took us to the shop. She introduced us to her husband who sorted us out with gas and the appropriate fittings. If picking us up and taking us there wasn’t enough, she took us back to where we got the ferry back to Port Louis, but not before taking us a tour of the dock area and showing us the U-Boat Pens built by the Germans. We also got a wee look at the huge Volvo Ocean going race boats being built, all courtesy of the lovely lady from U Ship Chandlers.
As you enter Port Louis you are met by the old Citadel. We took a walk up here one night to watch the sun setting and have a look around.
There is a monument to the Free French and graves of those that were shot by the Germans
Our time in Port Louis was lovely, we were asked to join Chris and Roland on their lovely Halberg Rassy for drinks. We had a shot on Chris and Roland’s folding bikes, We think bikes would’ve been a good addition to equipment on board.
The following evening we were invited onto another nice yacht, a Sweden, again for drinks!!!. The guy Brian who owned that is also a yacht master examiner from Northern Ireland and knows our friend Kevin well. What a small world.
Editor’s note…dinner was at 9.00 o clock that night, didnae get another chorizo pizza as expected, the cook was 3 sheets to the wind ,so it was dinner on board
