We made it to France, Cherbourg to be more precise. We arrived a couple of days ago and are heading off to Paris tomorrow for a quick catch up with Gilly and her family. Gilly is one of Scrubby's sisters. No time for sight seeing though because we have to get across channel to our winter berth on the Isle of Wight. The weather is looking good for a Tuesday departure next week.
The reason for the stop off in France is that it's the only way we could get the cat into the UK legally. You are not allowed to land him there from a sailing yacht so we had to take him over by ferry where we were met by my little sister Jo who is going to mind the cat for us until we can pick him up again. Unless, of course, we manage to re-home him before then. He needs a forever home on land for several reasons one being that he gets very seasick and the other is that bureaucratically it's turning out to be a nightmare taking an animal into lots of different countries. Ho hum.
So, I'm just off for a terrific hot chocolate that they serve over here, we have a favorite cafe already and I expect that Scrubby will manage a pastry or two at the same time.
Keep well.
