Since our retirement on 2019 we have been lucky to have the opportunities to ski through the winter months and to sail through the Summer. Although briefly thwarted by the restrictions of COVID, we have been able to fulfil our dreams. In 2024 our plans changed a little: we decided to keep sailing beyond the Summer and into 2025 – crossing the Atlantic to explore new cruising grounds in the Caribbean. So our winters are now spent sailing, and our Summers in the French Alps where we enjoy cycling and hiking.

Follow our progress on these pages: we try to post a blog every couple of weeks or so. When sailing, we also post our position using a tracking device on board the boat, so you can see where we are and how far we have sailed. Once in a blue moon I also summon up the enthusiasm to post a short video. My advice: ignore the dreadful videos, but at least enjoy the music – we try and set the videos to something that can at least be listened to!

The latest post...

6th March 2026: îles des Saintes

Another sleepy French island in paradise, and a sheltered bolthole from some very unsettled weather

Read our other blogs here

Caribbean 2026: to the Leeward Islands and beyond

The rest of 2025: Summer and Winter in France

The 2025 cycling trip from Belgium to France

Caribbean cruising 2025: The Windward islands

2024 -2025: An Atlantic Voyage

Summer 2024: Sardinia to Gibraltar

Winter 23-24: Might this be our last winter season?

Summer 2023: Back in the Eastern Mediterranean and on our way West

Winter 22-23: The social season

Summer 2022: Onwards to the Eastern Mediterranean

Winter 21-22: back on the slopes in the “new normal”

Summer 2021: crossing the Biscay

Winter 2021: end of season touring

2020: Life in a Pandemic!

The Summer 2020 cycling challenge

Winter 2019-2020: where it all began!

Cycle across France 2018