First a few pics of Culebra the bay of Culebra from a little hill next to the town the bay on the other side of the town where the ferries approach the bay from the other (northeast) side D's garden and another incredible sunrise Iguanas were everywhere Isla de Vieques, Bahia de La Chiva Bahia …
January 02 - January 15, 2024; 12078 nm and 1761 days after departure from La Rochelle The weather gods kept their promises and let us fly on a beautiful first day of 2024 from St Croix to Culebra. (Culebra is an island, town and municipal of Puerto Rico (PR) and geographically part of the Spanish Virgin Islands. …
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 …
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, …
Continue reading Croissants, Cheese and Chandler – Where did we end up?
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 …
August 14 - October 20, 2023; 10522 nm and 1674 days after departure from La Rochelle. Even when I keep repeating myself... but boy time is flying, ain't it? Five weeks in Europe - gone just like that! Four weeks back in Panamá passed within a wink. Does aging make us feel that time is …
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