We have just returned from a month away, and what a fantastic time. Very little running, no biking but a few days sailing and heaps of climbing! We spent the first few days down at my aunt and uncle’s, being taught one end of a sailing yacht from another in Portsmouth Harbour. Mike (my uncle) and P hatched a plan at our wedding to do the Three Peaks Yacht Race this year, so we have a scratch ... errmmm (!) team of my uncle, Mike, my cousin, Steve, P, myself and a mate Rich. Rich and I are the runners, with P being the standby runner! It’s going to be interesting and fun. We had three days on the boat, and P and I spent a night on it on the mooring. It was great to catch up with my cousin too as it’s a long time since I’ve seen him!
P and I then headed south in the van, taking the overnight ferry from Portsmouth to Caen-Ouistreme, driving to the Ardeche in one effort. We then drove the rest of the way to Toulon and caught another overnight ferry to Ajaccio on Corscia. We met up with our mates Kevin and Alice in their van and then had a fantastic 20 days on the island, climbing nearly every day. Crags visited included Rocher de Gozzi, U Richiusu, Restonica Valley, Bavella Col, Capineru, and a few other smaller sites.
On the way back to Cumbria, we stopped off again in the south for another couple of days on the boat, and some more sailing practice. We probably amused a fair number of people by trialling our heath robinson oars out and a set of quite hilarious runs perfecting the use of the cruising shute!
Sunset in Portsmouth Harbour
Moonlight
Corsica
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