For the past few weeks the sun has shone and we’ve been out walking almost every day, spending every evening on our terrace and having plenty of barbeques. Down in the valley it has hit 30 degrees but it’s pleasantly cooler up in the mountains. Jonathan has taken the opportunity to develop his skills with …
We departed Santa Pola on the last leg of our trip from Sardinia to Almerimar. Thankfully the winds and swell had calmed and we had a great sail to our next port of Les Salines. This is an interesting little port with a big fishing fleet so we were greeted with strong fishy smells as …
I returned to Palma after a fantastic weekend in London, having visited my mum and then joined friends for Sally and Sarah’s special birthday celebration at Sam’s on the river. Fabulous food, brilliant company and a surprise visit by Anita who had flown over from Australia. Lunch carried on well into the evening and the …
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 …