June 20 - July 11, 2022; 8901 nm and 1208 days after departure from La Rochelle. Santa Marta is a crazy, colourful, noisy and bustling city. After living for so many month in laid back Caribbean islands it was almost a shock (though a nice one) being back in a proper city. So many people, …
Continue reading First time ever South America!!! We made it to Colombia, Santa Marta
(I borrowed the feature pic from the web. We were not in the mood and capable to take pics at lightning night) June 14 - June 19, 2022; 8901 nm and 1186 days after departure from La Rochelle. What a scary experience! We planned our sail to Santa Marta very carefully. The focus was on …
May 21 - June 13, 2022; 8510 nm and 1180 days after departure from La Rochelle. I thought these two iguanas from the featured image looked a little like big scary dinosaurs. Blood were already running down their noses and it seemed as if they were prepared for fighting to death. Trying to survive in …
Continue reading Bonaire – divers paradise or more like Jurassic park?
April 29 - May 21, 2022; 8011 nm and 1157 days after departure from La Rochelle. Well, as disappointing as it was not being able to catch up with my workout teacher Ann in Nevis as nice it was meeting Wilson. (The feature pic shows Wilson on the right and his Cousin) Ann set us …
April 15 - April 29, 2022; 7841 nm and 1135 days after departure from La Rochelle. Boy, did we enjoy this relaxing island! Arriving and being already checked in from Jeff Winston, a local guy who was working for PAYS, was for sure a great start. Imagine that!!! No hassle whatsoever regarding the check in. …
Continue reading Dominica – a hidden gem in the lesser Antilles
March 22 - April 15, 2022; 7784 nm and 1121 days after departure from La Rochelle. Oh yeah! We were sportive! Even more than usual! Just look at the feature image😁. Ok, true, that was none of us in the pic, but at least we tried this fairly new sport named wing foiling. Have you …
Continue reading Sportive days, more friends and hurricane planning
February 25 - March 22, 2022; 7546 nm and 1097 days after departure from La Rochelle. I was sooooo much looking forward to have our little daughter aboard and it was sooooo nice having her here finally. Why do happy days pass by so much faster than others? Three weeks waiting for her felt at …
January 31 - February 24, 2022; 7438 nm and 1071 days after departure from La Rochelle. As quiet and relaxing January was as exciting and busy was February. It started with an unbelievable and crazy flight in a very small plane-like helicopter. A so called autogyro. The official explanation of this aircraft is as follows: …
January 11 - January 31 2022; 7438 nm and 1047 days after departure from La Rochelle. After the turbulent ending of last year we were starting the new year in a rather relaxing way. Anse de Saline, our favourite beach in Martinique so far, provided us with calm weather and beautiful sunshine. Just perfect to …
December 08 2021- January 11 2022; 7339 nm and 1027 days after departure from La Rochelle. Well, guess what happened. Correct! Our dear friend, the affectionate lovely virus Sars-Covid-19, lately disguised in a new variant named Omikron was the reason for our sudden return. In fact we had a perfect start. Our neighbour at the …
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