Geo: 43.3186, 3.14259Monday evening, we walked to the port for 6.45pm where we were greeted by the 'captain', Rene, and his 'mate', (in more ways than one given that they are also man and wife), Paule, and boarded Le Bonpas as part of the total eleven passengers for the cruise, including a party of four celebrating a birthday. Settled into informal seating at the front of the boat, safety instructions explained, we were served aperitifs by Paule before casting off, or whatever it is in boating 'speak'.Other than us two, the remainder were French spoken, so whilst Rene enthusiastically did the majority of the commentary in French (his English is limited and we were unable to follow his French), Paule discreetly translated the salient bits on our behalf, thankfully. She gave us some background to the
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