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Majic-L - Day 6 Majical Challenge



Very good nights sleep after yesterday's long sail and a couple of beers at the reception in the marina bar - we all really enjoyed that after the 16 hour sail to France.
Walked around town early before the skippers briefing - breakfast just had to be from the Boulangerie so warm croissant and French sticks. Cheese and pate from the charcuterie for lunch and wine for the evening and we were good to go. Shame we missed market day but st least we were here on a lovely day.
Once we were underway to Guernsey after our brief time in France, I'm afraid that motoring rather than sailing was the order of the day for most of the journey as bright sunshine meant little wind! We set up lunch in the cockpit on the table - all very nice. Talk about best laid plans though, a big dollop of coleslaw on my plate as we went through a swell meant it ended up in my shoe and on the floor that Tony and Richard had diligently swabbed earlier in Cherbourg - I did help to swab it again!
We managed to sail for around 30 minutes as we left the Alderney coast - we were wondering what happened to the so called Alderney races as did not help our sail,
Berthing up at Guernsey was very different to the last 2 ports - we were the fourth boat to arrive so were next to a pontoon, but then two other boats from the ARC group are berthed up next to us - good job we are all getting to know each other now!
We went in search of a good pub for something to eat and drink and following a recommendation from the first place on the seafront we visited (no draught beer!) and Linda spotting it in the book we had with the customs forms, we walked through the shopping area to "The Pickled Pig" which billed itself as a gastro pub. Well they did an excellent pint of Doom Bar and the food was nice as well. Couple of other ARC crew members also turned up and ate there as well. We finished the day back at Majic-L drinking wine and eating more of the cheeses we bought in Cherbourg - very pleasant end to a good day.

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