Our dinghy was slowly turning into a submarine… It clearly leaked. It also looked battered, lacked oarlocks, missed lines along the handles, and had no bench. Max spent a couple hours on it yesterday and it has made such a difference! It looks great now and most importantly, it looks like it will stay dry! […]
Chilling in Fiskardo
Friends’ reunion We met up with our friends Dave and Shirley to hang out in Fiskardo together for a couple of days. It is great seeing them again after having all wintered in Sicily. We were also moored in the same marina in Spain, so Greece is the third country we met in! Pancake Breakfast Max cooked […]
Goat Bay
Today we managed to back Spacegrazer into a small bay with steep hills on each side. We dropped the anchor and tied two stern lines to trees on the beach. Chilling out after that exercise, we were enjoying the peace and quiet when we were suddenly surrounded by the sound of bleating goats and bells! Such […]
Argostoli – New Friends and Lots of Turtles
After our long journey, we were happy to tie Spacegrazer up to the town quay at Argostoli. Fast Friends We headed straight for the café opposite us (what luck!) for a beer, and found out that the guy who runs the place has a 5-year old son who speaks English (more luck!). Our kids became instant friends […]
Crossing from Sicily to Greece
We are on the ‘road’ again! We left our winter berth at Marina di Ragusa in Sicily and headed for Argostoli on Cephalonia in Greece. A trip of just under 300 miles straight across (so no land along the way to stop) and we made good time, getting there in 48 hours. Long, overnight passages always make […]
Mahon, Menorca
Mahon, allegedly the birthplace of Mayonnaise. We got here last night just before sundown. We originally planned to go to a Cala on the south coast of Menorca, but when we got there the anchorage was so poor due to the prevailing wind that we carried on an extra 20M to Mahon. The anchorage here […]
Settling In
Are we there yet? The settling in period is still settling in. Okay, we were in the marina for a long while getting the boat ready. So that was a settling in of itself. Now at anchor it seems the days once again have their own rhythm. Boat time has taken on a new meaning. […]
Water Rats
We’ve been having a blast, enjoying the anchorage. We’re anchored in 3m of water. Windless mornings, staring through the mirrored water, I get the feeling we are parked in a grass field. We all love swimming off the boat. The kids have become water rats in the last months, ever wanting to push the boundaries […]
Cala de Calobra to Pollensa
The trip up to Pollensa was stunning. Again no wind, but we weren’t complaining, let us get right up close to the cliffs along the north west coast of Mallorca and drop our jaws at the view. Drop a fishing line overboard and managed to catch a speedboat that cut across our wake. They stopped […]
Cala de Calobra
We had the bay to ourselves last night. Goats bleats echoed off the cliffs as twilight turned to night. As expected the kids loved running around on the beach, exploring. Up and down the tunnels they screamed their heads off, much to the amusement, or dismay, of the tourists coming through. Apparently this place is […]
Soller to Cala de Calobra
Went up the coast about 7 miles to this bay that we nearly deserted for boats. No wind to speak of, so still using the motor. Anchored up with a fantastic view over a beach split by two overlooking cliffs. Dived off and swam to the shore and took a look around. A couple of […]
Chilling and Train Rides
So we’ve been chilling out for the last few days. We had a couple of days of 20+ knot winds which kept our minds occupied on our anchoring, after we’d dragged on our second day. I had just finished writing an email and I looked up as we were drifting onto a nearby boat. In […]
Puerto de Sóller
So we are here. Puerto de Sóller, Mallorca. The crossing took us eighteen and a half hours. We could have done it more quickly, but slowed the boat so that we could arrive at dawn. The wind was on the nose the whole way, as forecast – so we motored. The kids took to it […]