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Well the lads and lady returned from the winery quite the experts. You can imagine what the next meal was like ordering and tasting the wine. We strolled over to Signoria square which is like an amazing open air sculpture museum with David, The Rape of the Sabine women, Perseus holding Medusa’s head and aContinue reading “Cinque Terre and Venice…”

3 am rise to fly and we are now in Florence. WOW! is the only thing I can say. There was a bit of a mix up when we arrived, tired and a bit grumpy it might be added. We couldn’t check our luggage into the apartment because the other tenants were still there. FortunatelyContinue reading “on to Florence”

We have had some beautiful anchors where we pop in for a swim and then off to some small beach restaurant.  Surprisingly enough the meals haven’t been too expensive .. well, with exception to the night where we stayed in port of Cava Gavatta which we had to shelter from the mistral winds.  We metContinue reading “2nd Week Still sailing in Sardinia”

Our fist swim off the boat and of course  the Floridians hesitated and strangely enough didn’t believe me that the water was warm. As you can see from the photo Brian’s stress level quickly adapted to Island time. On our second anchorage, Porto Palma, on the Southern tip of Sardinia we cooked fish with LemonContinue reading “Sardinia and Corsica.”

Reinhard and Leslie have now arrived and for our last day we did a three hour guided tour of the Vatican. I would highly recommend a private tour.  It saves time in lines as well as being informative.  Needless to say it was incredible with all the art work and history, although it has toContinue reading “Leaving Rome for Sardinia…”

With the exception of Leslie and Reinhard who are arriving later in the week, we all met at the airport and of course did the obligatory selfie.    The apartment is big and beautiful and right beside the Coliseum.    We spent the first day strolling around and with the exception off losing Tom and Paula forContinue reading “Well we’re off on our travels again and this time it’s to Italy first stop Rome.”

Some photographs below which might give a wee bit more of the feeling of how big those icebergs and seals were. This is a story that has nothing to do with the pictures but I like it.    We were looking at the Chilean base and then the Argentinian and I asked Henck if theyContinue reading “A bit more”

Priscilla who is a Radio Presenter and known throughout Malaysia, provided the background music to add ambiance when we sailed through the ice and at night when we were relaxing after all the exertions and then again at night when anyone was partying.  She had no sailing experience but ever so quietly and graciously gotContinue reading “The Characters and some more pics”

(uncertain of cordinates as Log book is packed away and in the hold of the plane.   Just accept that we are further north but still pretty damn South! and our log of the trip is at least 1,300 knots.) We left the Horn to beautiful scenes of land, Albatross, Skua and the occasional pod ofContinue reading “Some Pics”

55 deg 57′ 09″ S 67deg 13 ‘ 02″ W log 1503 We left Melchior Island in a beautiful sunrise.  Then the three and a half day trip across the dreaded Drake passage to Cape Horn.  It started with ice watch at 3 am. and every five hours we were on for two hours. DodgingContinue reading “Rounding Cape Horn.”