Friday, 7 June 2013

The Embarrassment of being grounded

Well, no, not the actual Silver Cloud. The ship is at anchor for St Malo – in a very pretty spot – and the guests are being taken in by tender. Two tender originally, running a shuttle service. And then one of them politely steered to one side to allow a zodiac from a Noble Caledonian ship to pass. And ran onto a sandbank in a flurry of water and sand. The passengers were transferred with great care to the other tender and the crew had to sit it out til the next high tide. TSH, who knows the area, was proven right with his constant warnings about the fast changing tides and the vast difference in level between high and low.


TSH and Diva meandered through the town and then around the walls of the old town. The whole morning exceeded Diva’s expectations.

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