Position: 41°20’12.4″N 9°15’23.3″ “There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.” – Napoléon Bonaparte In the little graveyard on the uninhabited island of Lavezzi there is a plaque carved in crumbling white marble. Translated from French it …
Welcome to Italy, Now stay on your boat! Position: 40°33’38″N 8°18’39″E Covid got us. Again! The upsurge in Covid infections in Spain (thanks nightclubbers) inspired the Italians to take up additional precautions. All arriving visitors from Spain, and a few …
Position: 40°33’N 8°18’E The Gulf of Lion is notorious for strong winds. The Tramontana skip off the top of the Pyrenees and blast south and west. It’s more famous cousin, the Mistral, bundles up against the Alps, then funnels south …
Position: 39° 49′ 58″N 2° 44′ 43″E By popular demand we head back to the water. The north shore of Mallorca is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here the ragged mountains drop straight into the sea. The coast abounds with …
Position: 39°47’34.0″N 2°41’36.3″E “Allo!”, called the man swimming towards Aleta. “I noticed your dinghy, and I would like to ask you some questions,” he said, pulling alongside. Always at the ready to answer enquiries about Porta-botes, we invited him aboard. …
Position: 38°58’07.4″N 1°15’53.3″E Our anchorage, Port des Torrent, was peaceful, but rolly and I’d had a restless night’s sleep. The quiet of the morning was punctured by enthusiastic calls of “Buenas Dias! Buenas Dias!”, outside of the porthole. We popped …
Having spent more weeks in the Pyrenees than was healthy for Marlon, we finally arrived back in Cartagena. In a busy shipyard squeaky wheels get the oil, and on our return Carol got pretty squeaky. In short order we saw …
Hola Chicas! Marlon here! I have been having a marvelous time at some other people’s place. My peoples did a dump and run on me a few weeks ago, but honestly, I’m not hurt that I’m not with them. Not …
It took a couple of nights in an apartment in Cartagena to get a better sense of how long repairs were going to take. Given that a delayed tourist season was on us, and when repair days stretched to weeks, …
