It's interesting that France has a strong yacht and pleasure-craft industry, and many spiffy marinas. Yet the €15bn a year in tax cuts to the wealthy handed out by Sarkozy since 2007 have had no notable stimulus effect on the economy...
But any of you out there who enjoy relaxed sailing, the Finnish archipelago is THE place to go. Every summer in Finland I meet happy Dutch, French and Italian sailors who have discovered the secret. There are thousands of pink granite Pre-Cambrian islands wallowing like hippopotamii in the Baltic waters off Åbo.
To go to an uninhabited island, scour the beaches for driftwood, light a fire and with a steel plate on legs over the fire, cook some fresh bread and sausages, is the closest I've ever come to Nirvana. You can't be me, I'm taken
