Sailing to France

After picking up our replacement depthsounder and having just one last night with our friends Simon and Kathy, we finally left the Emerald Isle. We skirted the Fastnet Rock on the way, our first proper view of it due to almost constant mist, and it looks much like it does in pictures.
We had fair winds for the first 16 hours, then the wind died completely just after midnight and we motored the rest of the way to the Scilly Isles. We had a day there to recover from our two-hour shifts the previous night, had our last proper roast dinner then up with the sails and off to France the following day.
Again we had a great wind on our starboard quarter, and plenty of it, we touched 9.3 knots on the GPS, arriving in Camaret (near Brest) yesterday morning after a 24 hour sail. We are now enjoying sunshine, cheap restaurants doing 3-course meals for 10 euros (£7) and all the joys of France. Next stop Douarnenez...