Category: travel

  • Life onboard: Route Planning and Weather

    Life onboard: Route Planning and Weather

    The weather, especially the wind dictates our travel planning, our comfort and our safety and we talk about it endlessly both with each other and any other yachties we meet up with. The sun, the wind, the rain, thunderstorms, the sea state, the dust, the moon, you name it. The other thing we think and…

  • I’m just going to buy milk honey……

    I’m just going to buy milk honey……

    In some ways the rhythms and routines are just like life on land and in other ways it’s very different. There’s still shopping, cooking, exercising, dealing with life admin, cleaning, showering and too much washing up. Added to this there’s a lot of maintenance for Rick as things break all the time and regular cleaning,…

  • Postcard Home: Hydra

    Postcard Home: Hydra

    Like a bird on a wire… Anyone else love that song by Leonard Cohen?  Turns out that he wrote it here on the beautiful island of Hydra.  This long, skinny, jagged strip of an island is just a few miles off the Greek mainland and sits strategically between the Argolic and Saronic gulfs. I can…