Brenda's Story

Hi Guys

I started the season full of enthusiasm and even rearranged my work schedule from July 20^th to enable me to go windsurfing at Bray every Monday and Friday morning, but this year I have been dogged with ill health which started with a bad bout of Vertigo back in May which laid me up in bed and I couldn’t walk straight or even stand up for days without being really ill. Windsurfing is one sport which you cannot do without being able to balance. But I didn’t give up and still took my equipment to Brittany in August when we stayed at a lovely Campsite called Du Letty in Benodet. It looked good in the brochure for windsurfing and boating in the lagoon but in reality the tide came in and out with such speed that there was only a short window each day for someone of my ability to get on the water with my board. But I didn’t give up and I quite enjoyed myself a few times (If only I could learn to water start !!) I came home from Brittany at the end of August to a building site as I was having my kitchen renovated which has stopped me from surfing at the moment as everything which could go wrong has gone wrong (even the Granite worktop men cracked one worktop in half at the fitting day so electrician, plumber and floor layer all had to be put back until another worktop could be manufactured so you guessed it I still havn’t been to the lake yet. What a waste of a sailing ticket this year has been .But I am not giving up just yet and will be back just as soon as I can get this mess sorted out. Hopefully will see you in a couple of weeks weather permitting

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