Day 2578 (Saturday) 29th June 2024

This is Cagnes-sur-Mer

A city with a castle and people

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The tour de France started today and this is the route it will take into Nice on its final stage…

A map of the route of the race

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The 2024 Tour de France will be the 111th edition of the Tour de France. It started in Florence, Italy, on 29th June, and will finish in Nice, France, on 21st July. The race will not finish in Paris for the first time since its inception, owing to preparations for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. 

Dates: Sat, Jun 29, 2024 – Sun, Jul 21, 2024

Location: FranceItalyMonaco

It ends in Place Massena in Nice so I assume we’ll go on July 21st.


This yacht was in the bay this morning and is called Bravo Eugenia – I can’t imagine why the fore deck is so long

Bravo Eugenia Charter Yacht

Bravo Eugenia Yacht Not for Charter

357'7 / 109m | Oceanco | 2018

Special features

Elevator for convenient access

Multi-award winning

State-of-the-art cinema

Generous pool

Lloyds Register 100A1 SSC Yacht, Mono, G6, ECO  LMC, UMS0016; classification.

The multi-award winning 109m/357'7" motor yacht 'Bravo Eugenia' was built by Oceanco in the Netherlands at their Alblasserdam shipyard. Her interior is styled by British designer design house Reymond Langton Design and she was delivered to her owner in December 2018. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Nuvolari Lenard.


Guest Accommodation 

Bravo Eugenia has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 14 guests in 7 suites. She is also capable of carrying up to 30 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.


Onboard Comfort and Entertainment

Her features include a movie theatre, beauty salon, elevator, underwater lights and air conditioning.


Range and Performance

Bravo Eugenia is built with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, with teak decks. Powered by twin electric (Electro-Propulsive Motor) 604hp engines, she comfortably cruises at 14 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 18 knots. Bravo Eugenia features at-anchor stabilizers providing exceptional comfort levels. She was built to Lloyds Register 100A1 SSC Yacht, Mono, G6, ECO  LMC, UMS0016; classification society rules.

*CHARTER BRAVO EUGENIA MOTOR YACHT

Motor yacht Bravo Eugenia is currently not believed to be available for private Charter. 

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Bravo Eugenia Awards and Nominations

Asia Boating Award 2019
Best Custom Built Yacht
FINALIST

La Belle Classe Explorer Awards (Y.C.M.) 2019
Adventure / Ethics / Environment
WINNER

World Yachts Trophies 2019
Yacht of the Year
WINNER

International Superyacht Society Awards 2019
Best Power 65m+
FINALIST


OWNER & GUESTS 14

CABINS 7

CREW 30


Specification

M/Y Bravo Eugenia

LENGTH

357'7 / 109m

BUILDER

Oceanco

EXTERIOR DESIGNER

Nuvolari Lenard

INTERIOR DESIGN

Reymond Langton Design

BUILT | REFIT

2018

MODEL

Custom

BEAM

53'6 / 16.3m

GROSS TONNAGE

4,500 GT

DRAFT

13'1 / 4m

CRUISING SPEED

14 Knots

TOP SPEED

18.5 Knots

 

The Bordeaux wine festival has also started…

Everything you need to know about the Bordeaux wine festival

Everything you need to know about the Bordeaux wine festivalWorkers set up for the Bordeaux wine festival - there's little danger of running out of wine during the four-day event. Photo by PATRICK BERNARD / AFP


Bordeaux is a name synonymous with wine - and the city holds a four-day festival every summer celebrating all things grape-related.

You’ll find the four-day celebration of all things viticultural and oenological (yes, that is a word) in Bordeaux this weekend.

The festival runs from June 27th to June 30th and takes place on the left bank of the River Garonne, between Pont de Pierre and Hangar 14, in the shadow of the masts of a number of tall ships – including the Belem, which recently transported the Olympic Flame across the Mediterranean, from Greece to Marseille.

Along the quays of the Garonne, winegrowers and merchants welcome visitors to various pavilions for tasting stops taking in the gamut of white, red, rosé, claret and crémant… from the wines of Médoc, via Bordeaux whites, the various Côtes, reds (of course), Saint-Emilion, Pomerol and more.


You can even attend a class of the Bordeaux Wine School.

To help wash down all that wine, a number of food producers and artisan food trucks are also on site.

Go on Friday or Saturday evening and you could catch an epic drone show over the river, they do it every year (with a wine theme of course) and it's pretty spectacular.

 

The good news is that the festival is free to enter – though if you want to sample a wine or two, or more, you’ll need a tasting pass.

That costs 23€, and should be bought on site or online – but it comes with a free glass, which you may find useful for all that tasting.



To finish on a few more terrible French jokes…

14 – Joke In French 🚰

Le maître s’adresse à ses élèves :
– Je vais vous rendre vos devoirs de mathématiques. Il s’agissait d’un problème de robinet qui fuit. Toto, tu n’as rien répondu mais tu as écrit un numéro de téléphone. Pourquoi ?
– C’est celui de mon père, m’sieur, il est plombier…

The teacher to his students:
– I’m going to give you back your maths homework. It was a problem about a leaking tap. Toto, you have not responded [to the question] at all, but have written a phone number. Why?
– That’s my dad’s number, sir, he’s a plumber…


15 – Joke In French 🐮

A l’école, l’institutrice s’adresse à Toto...
– À quoi sert le mouton ?
– À nous donner la laine, mademoiselle l’institutrice.
– À quoi sert la poule ?
– À nous donner des oeufs, mademoiselle l’institutrice.
– À quoi sert la vache ?
– À nous donner des devoirs, mademoiselle l’institutrice.

At school, the teacher says to Toto:
– What is a sheep good for?
– To give us wool, Miss. [literally, “miss teacher”].
– What is a hen good for?
– To give us eggs, Miss.
– What is a cow for?
– To give us homework, Miss.

(“une vache” is a mild slang word to describe a woman who is strict and tough.)


16 – French Joke 👨‍⚕️

Une femme va dans une pharmacie, achète pour 300 Euros de produits amaigrissants. Elle demande au pharmacien:
– Vous pensez que je vais perdre combien avec ça ?
Le pharmacien répond alors :
– Ben… 300 Euros.

A woman goes to a pharmacy, and buys some slimming products for 300 Euros. She asks the pharmacist:
– How much do you think I will be losing with this?
The pharmacist responds:
– Well … 300 Euros.


Stretchy hot Badger.

A cat lying on its back on a bed

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A cat lying on money

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A cat sitting on a piano

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A group of kittens peeking over a wood fence

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