We all thought it was going to be a "Yarn" as he was very entertaining and humourous. But no, it was a real story, He was captured by pirates off somalia,in this yacht, Le Ponant, in April 2008, with a crew of 30 luckily no passengers as they were repositioning the boat, held for about 4/5 days while negotiations went on between his company and the pirates with him in the middle, they were armed to the teeeth, fired shots into the ship several times, lots of photos, he was stalling to give the navy time to get close, very dramatic, Long story short, he got all his crcew off safely including himself, in exchange for 2 million us dollars, and they got the yacht back and the french captured 6 of them but only got back a tenth of the money. When he got back to France President Sarkovy awarded him the Legion d'Honouer. So not only was he handsome and soooo sexy voiced, but brave as well! Well we are back in Buenos aires now, and only got 2 more days left, This has truly been the best experience of my life as far as travel goes , so far! I will post the photos soon, but I didn't bring my cable and I have taken so many I need to prune them, but I promise I will post some and the rest you will have to wait until we meet and you can see them on my computer or the tv. Au revoir, and Bonjour.
vicki
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