For those of you who have been wondering about what’s going on with us, here is a quick recap of our story over the last few months. Originally, our plan was to take a year or two off and go sailing, get this whole...
I’m writing this update on a train half way between London and Hastings. “How did they end up in England?” I hear you ask. Frankly, we’re wondering the same thing because last time we checked we were in Sicily on the...
After breakfast on Sunday we picked up anchor for the last time and set off for Ragusa. We motored for an hour or two then had a very leisurely sail along the south coast. We’ve heard amazing things about Ragusa as a...
On Saturday morning we set off towards our last anchorage of the season, Portopalo, which is on the very south east corner of Sicily. As we left the confines of Syracuse we motored into a pretty hefty swell which soon...
Should we stay or should we go? That’s what we debated all morning. We did want to push on to Ragusa (our winter marina, 60NM/12 hours away) but after the day we had on Wednesday, and on checking the forecast (which...
When we anchored on Tuesday night in Naxos it looked like we’d be nicely protected behind the harbour wall. It wasn’t to be. A north westerly swell picked up and by 01:30 we were up on deck assessing our options, as...
