“
Youth is a painful moment when we make a lot of efforts for an old age that we will not benefit from
”.
After the life of a novel, Olivier de Kersauson, 76 years old and his sense of the formula always sharpened, takes pleasure in being wrong in the sweetness of Tahiti.
“
I’m going to swim for an hour, do some sport and then I’ll have fun.
Here, we don't feel guilty for doing nothing
, ”he smiles, sitting on the terrace of his house in Punaauia, from where he gave
Le Figaro
a fascinating interview (to be found here).
The sailor returned from several weeks of navigation in the Marquesas Islands to carry out cartographic surveys.
"
I had been there 5 or 6 times without really taking the time to walk bay by bay, pebble by pebble.
It's a beauty to die for
, he breathes
.
I have been all over the world, but the Marquesas have put me on my ass
”.
We can take our word for the Admiral, who knows the oceans like the back of his hand.
While the skippers of the Jules Verne Trophy and Vendée
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