Sunday 9th June 2024 I’ve just realised that the final leg of our voyage was about a year ago. It has been on my conscience that I never got round, until now, to finishing and posting this final episode of our trip. So apologies to all and especially those of
We have been back home in Bristol for about ten weeks …. so this post is just a little late. Here are some happy memories of what now feels like a very long time ago …. Monday 24th April to Wednesday 17th May 2023 We had completed our circumnavigation! Approaching
Wednesday June 7th 2023 We are in the Azores getting Vega ready for the final passage home. Hopefully you will have been following Hugh’s blog and so will know that Hugh and son Olly sailed here from Antigua whilst I jumped ship there and took the sensible way home –
We’ve made it to Antigua and are getting Vega ready to cross the north Atlantic to the Azores. Here’s a look back at our time in St Helena. Wednesday 8th to Friday 17th March 2023 All I knew about St Helena was that it is somewhere in the South Atlantic
I’m posting this from Fernando de Noronha, a small island off the North-East of Brazil where we are taking a few days break on the long passage home. A bit of catching up blog-wise on our time in St Helena which will have to wait until we get to Antigua.
We are in St Helena now, a two week sail from Cape Town, but in the meantime here’s a post about our time in Cape Town. Wednesday 18th January to Wednesday 22nd February 2023 We had made it to Cape Town and were absolutely delighted to be there. The final
We’re finally leaving Cape Town at noon today for Antigua in the Caribbean. It should take us 9 weeks including short stops in St Helena & Fernando de Noronha in Brazil on the way. We have spent just over a month here, but Hugh was back in the UK for
Home in Bristol – 3rd to 28th December We’d arrived back at Heathrow on December 3rd and it was cold. Hugh was in shorts and sandals so one of our first tasks when we got back to Bristol was to buy him sturdy boots and a new sailing jacket. The
January 29th 2023 Ignore this if you’ve already read it! somehow i managed to bin it but thankfully have managed to restore it from the Bin. I am finishing this post from Cape Town. We spent most of December back in the UK, pleased to see family and friends over
Tuesday 25th October to Monday 7th November 2022 We’d been rather nervous about tacking the notorious Mozambique Channel and in the end it turned out to be one of the most enjoyable passages of our circumnavigation so far. So why does the Mozambique Channel have such a fearsome reputation? It
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