A surreal experience yesterday, after the usual strenuous lifeboat exercises in the morning. One of our crew is off to Strasbourg to start nursing training, executing a 90° or perhaps 180° career turn from his former calling of notary's clerk.
To honour his send off, the station had organised a farewell alfresco lunch down on the quayside, next to the lifeboat. Lots of people, grizzly veterans of the open boats of years ago, chappies who gravitate around the lifeboats because they lend a hand on the mechanical front, spouses and children. It was good fun, but the main course, in a none-too-subtle nod to Strasbourg, was sauerkraut, or choucroute as it is known in France. It is the first time we have had outdoor choucroute on the Côte d'Azur. Very strange...
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