After checking in to the US we headed over to a little island, Great Saint James between St John and St Thomas. The bay had a nice name to suit the time of year: "Christmas Cove". Yet as cosy as it sounded we only spent a night and headed off to St Croix early next …
Virgin Gorda We checked in at Spanish Town and visited the National Park Bath Virgin Gorda viewed from the sea side, the hills didn't look like a fat virgin to me, maybe I need to have mens eyes😁 to get the picture approaching the south end and national park of Virgin Gorda the marina of …
December 04 - January 02, 2024; 11882 nm and 1748 days after departure from La Rochelle Spectacular, a blast, it couldn't have been better. Fireworks everywhere and people celebrating the whole night through. Dancing, drinking, partying. Well that was at least what we were kind of expecting at New Year's Eve (NYE). We had spent …
Continue reading NYE-What a night at Frederiksted in St Croix!!!
The first days in Marigot arriving at St Martin and heading into a squall at the port office with the nice ladies post box for letters to Santa Clause my escort boys famous athletes from St Martin strolling around in Marigot trying to find the life raft chandler I just liked the garden Our trip with …
November 14 - December 04, 2023; 11733 nm and 1719 days after departure from La Rochelle Oui très bien! Yep, you guessed right! We made it to a French island. We were back in Saint Martin. The paradise for cruisers who have been away from European groceries for a loooong time. There the (food addicted, …
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Our arrival day and first steps ashore arriving at Aruba and heading to the customs dock we made it to the dock, fortunately there was no wind so the approach was easy in heavy winds it's a challenge to dock here even though it looks super easy, there were reefs very close by and it …
October 20 - November 14, 2023; 11164 nm and 1699 days after departure from La Rochelle Yeah, well, sometimes plans changes, don't they? Thanks to a huge tropical disturbance (initial stage of a potential hurricane) which seemed to head right in our way we ended up in Aruba. Who would have thought. It's the most …
Continue reading We made it!!! Just not to the DR but to Aruba
A few pics from Paris and of a Banksy exhibition we visited. (Banksy is a British graffiti artist considered one of the greatest exponents of street art.) the feature pic and this one from Galeries Lafayette- always a spectacular decoration decoration at Printemps we happened to run into a classical Parisian street market while strolling …
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