We departed Isola Maddalena and had a night at a beautiful anchorage, waiting for the swell to abate, before heading across the Bonifacio Strait to Corsica. The old walled city of Bonifacio clings to high, eroded cliffs and is an incredible sight. We then rounded a small headland that leads into the narrow Cala of …
We’ve had a house full of lively guests and some beautiful sunshine, interspersed with overnight snowfalls, resulting in a fantastic few weeks. Ray and his daughter Lily arrived a fortnight ago and we headed off to Ste Foy. We had sunshine and empty runs making for a great first day before spending the rest of …
Hmm. That doesn’t look much like a ski resort! Since Gary departed two weeks ago we haven’t really had any big snowfalls and the weather has mainly been sunny with unusually high temperatures. With this in mind we decided to go cycling around beautiful Lac d’Annecy. We headed off down the mountain on a glorious …
Ten days ago we returned to Greece but we were unaware that we were flying in to Storm Daniel too! We touched down at Preveza airport in high humidity, and storm clouds built overnight, bringing torrential rain, strong winds, thunder and lightning. Our boat was due to be relaunched the next day and we watched …
Incredibly, it’s over a month since our last blog and, as you can see, we have returned to the mountains. We flew from Preveza to London and spent a week catching up with family and friends, having a particularly special evening at Dishoom where Gill, Ros, Sarah, Helen and I met up with Anita and …
We really feel we’ve arrived in the Ionians. The weather has warmed up rapidly as has the sea and we’re grateful to be able to leap in for long cooling swims in crystal clear water. We’re making our way slowly around Ithaca, the smaller island east of Cephalonia, which has innumerable sheltered bays in which …
We managed to depart Leros on the 14th May. It took over a week to purchase a new hot water tank and wait for the boatyard technicians to have a time slot to install it. We had been hanging around with very little else to do and, on running through our pre-departure checks, found that …
I returned from a week in London visiting family to entertain my girlfriends from college days. Sally, Helen, Rigby, Sarah and I all met in Autumn 1983 and have had so many good times together over the almost 40 years we have been friends. Now we have more space in the chalet it was a …
Still waiting for snow!!! Nonetheless we’re having a lovely time in the mountains and enjoying lots of sunshine. Jonny, Beth, Rosie and Tilda arrived for a long weekend and we headed up to Ste Foy where they have skied before and absolutely loved. Luckily the UK half term was over and the resort was fairly …
Since the last blog we have been busy! We had a few days with no-one staying and fabulous snow so made the most of it skiing the off-piste in Villaroger and Ste Foy. In fact we had such a fabulous morning skiing from the Aiguille lift down to Le Monal village that we had to …