Isle d'Yeu continued

August 30th was a very significant day for us, it was a Sunday and seemingly everyone on the Isle d' Yeu was leaving. There was a queue at the ferry terminal and a walk up the hill to the church revealed a solitary cat wandering the streets, along with two English sailors obviously. It suddenly dawned on us that it was the end of the French school holidays.

Mystery solved, the previous evening we had spent in a bar by the docks called Le Navigator watching a punk band great evening and huge fun but I'm afraid we were a bit the worse for wear on Sunday morning.

We had been trying to get a look inside the church but it always seemed locked.

But not today, we went inside not knowing what to expect. It was rather plainly decorated but with some lovely relief sculptures depicting the 12 stations of the cross.

The rest of the church seemed in Keeping with a small island, however there was a rather grand organ with either Dolphins or sharks as decoration.

I you look closely they up at the top on either side of the central pipes. 

We wandered back to the boat and fell into a long conversation with a couple of English yachtsmen who were on their way to the Gironde and thus into the French inland waterway system. Our plan was to head towards La Rochelle, the obvious first stopping point would be where our new friends were heading, namely Sables d' Ollone.

We planned however to stop at a place called Bourgeney, which seemed easier to enter and leave and also promised not to be crowded with British yachties...........