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Croatia has been a real adventure. We saw a lot of amazing things and got visits from family and friends which made it extra special. How do we compare it to other places we’ve seen? Bianca and I have been trying to sum it up. Perhaps we got spoilt in Greece with the ease and […]

Early Birds We got up early yesterday to get the 6:45 ferry into Dubrovnik from the island of Kolocep where we are anchored. Being a Unesco heritage city steeped in history and of course the set of GOT’s King’s Landing – we weren’t going to miss this opportunity. City Wall Walking the city wall is […]

Sitting on the wall Korcula is a beautiful medieval walled town, situated on a small peninsula. We arrived in the bay close to town early, dropped anchor and left Spacegrazer to go exploring. It was a hot day and the sea looked more attractive to the kids than the town did. So Max had the […]

Running from the big bad bora We were caught in some scary weather yesterday. We had read the forecast the night before: wind picking up in the afternoon, with thunderstorms. This particular wind is called the bora, and it tends to blow stronger in the northern Adriatic, where we are now. The anchorage we were […]

Pancakes Pancakes is a tradition with us on birthdays. Today was presents then pancakes. Beau was literally jumping up and down with excitement. We love to indulge it. The boat is covered with birthday decorations and balloons. Another tradition onboard, regardless of age. Beau 7 In the last year Beau has learnt so much. His […]

Beau’s excited Today is officially known as the day before Beau turns seven. He is super-duper excited about it. Has he told us? About a million times. Opa en Oma We are also preparing for Opa and Oma to come. Boat things needed to be cleaned up, moved around. I even unwrapped the new pressure […]

Getting Here We had a lovely sail down to our pick up, Pula today. There was just a gentle breeze from astern and we had the sails up straight away. Our boat is not built for speed and we were overtaken by, well, everyone sailing the same course. Many of the boats had kevlar sails […]

Conversation with Zoe today She told me, “I’ll never forget you.” “Forget me?”, I asked concerned. “Yes, if you go away on a long holiday”, she replied. “Oh”, I said somewhat relieved. “Or once you’re dead.” Terrific! Out of the mouths of babes… Reaching Rovinj So, after filling up with diesel at the dockside we […]

Piran looked a pretty place. We stuck our nose into the harbour and it looked pretty busy. After several days of slowing down, busy wasn’t really high on the agenda. So we changed plans and decided that crossing over to Croatia was the thing to do. Everyone’s told us that the Croatians are sticklers for […]

Things the kids were into in May 2018 Swimming – swim season has started again! LEGO – they go on and off Lego’s. Definitely ON at the moment. Pokemon – it’s an obsession… Funny stuff they said this month Beau During a sail the wind unexpectedly picked up and caused the boat to heel over […]