Hi just to let you know that Rowena's adventures are now on facebook. Look for Rowena Grandbanks!

I should not of mentioned Glastonbury because on Saturday the heavens opened at dinnertime and did not stop till midnight! We were watching someone, can't remember who, on the stage and got soaked, so came back to the boat and put on all our wet weather gear, wellies, waterproof trousers and anoracks, then back to the concert, the group were very good, well we thought so.

We are just about to leave Paimpol now, for St Quay, we won't get there till about 10 and it will be getting dark, not our favourite thing to do, boating in the dark, but it needs to be done, then we will go to Dahouet tomorrow morning, that's a nice place and hopefully much quieter than Paimpol has been.

The photo is the lock gates into Paimpol, you can see why the skipper is out now looking to see hou much water is in the lock!

First of all congratulations to Peter and Sandra who had their maiden voyage on their boat, up the River Dee, the photos look as if they are having fun! Perhaps they would like to try going to the place on this photo next! Its the Isles de Brehat at low tide, we caught the bus to the end of the peninsular and walked back to Paimpol.

Glastonbury eat your heart out! Here we are at the Paimpol festival, got our wristbands which we have to show if we need to leave the arena, which we are in the middle of with Rowena.

There is a lot of irish jigging music around, men singing sea shanties and bagpipes, perhaps not quite Glastonbury. Last night we had the Chieftans and Simple Minds! It was so noisy that even Rowena was vibrating with the bass.

The 300 wooden boats that came in on Thursday were a sight to see, and now with all their flags up they look wonderful.

It was so noisy last night we didn't get to sleep until about 3am, we are thinking of going off to the beach for a bar b que for some peace and quiet, but then it will still be noisy when we get back. On top of all that we had a rope stolen yesterday, we were only away about 3/4hr, the boats around us said their were some kids on the pontoon, so it must of been them. No sign of any rope when Paul went to have a good look this morning.

We were hoping to leave on Monday, but I should imagine all these wooden boats will want to go as well, and as they are so big I would not want to get tangled up in the lock with them.

This was taken in Guingamp, on our inland tour, 2 teas and cupcakes 10 euros!

When we got back to Paimpol a boat had rafted alongside us, much to the skippers disgust they had put their springs running along his new deck, well he had them out of their cabin in an instant to make them do their ropes properly and get them off his new deck! They also had not put on any ropes to the pontoon so Rowena was taking all their weight, that soon changed and fore and aft ropes were put on. They do not seem to speak to us now, I wonder why!

Oh yes and the man on the yacht in front of us is Peter Snow the newsreader!! He did everything properly, its just an ordinary yacht nothing showy.

We left Binic on Saturday quite early and came to Paimpol, we got in the first lock, 1.4m under Rowena, usually we have to wait until high tide, the skipper has a lot more confidence now!

Paimpol is very very busy, and the festival of boats does not start until the weekend, we may of had enough by then and leave for somewhere quiet.

We hired a car to get Irene and Mike back to St Malo on Sunday so they could catch the sea cat to Jersey then their plane. It was a nice change to see something of the countryside, though if anyone can tell why all these bones are kept in a building by the churchgate I would love to know.

We had a lovely time with Mike and Irene, we left St Malo last Monday and anchored off Val Andre, had a swim off Rowena and lunch up top. Then we motored for an hour to Binic and stayed there until Friday, it was lovely, very quiet, hardly any visiting boats, we swam everyday in the sea, luckily it was high tide in the morning and we could just go down the steps into the sea, so no sand on us that may have then been transported to Rowena. Thats a big no no!!

When the tide does go out there it goes out about a mile, so a long way to walk holding your stomach in!

We went for a walk around Binic and got a bit lost, only Mike knew the way but he was over ruled by the rest of us, so we wandered in a circle, took a short cut and eventually got back to the boat.