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Over the weekend – while I was trying to re-organize my bag for the x time – I figured that over the last 3 weeks I visited 8 countries (Italy, UK, Gibraltar, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Austria and Germany) and travelled 6500 miles (roughly) through the air (4300 miles), by car (1700 miles) and on a boat [...]
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Hi there. I added some pictures to our photo album from the last two weeks. Have fun. Kosta
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Back home for 3 weeks
I am back home for three weeks. Martin, our instructor for the last two weeks – and the one we sailed to Portugal with – meant I would be ready for the Yachtmaster Prep. This basically is a two week intensive course where everything is being wrapped up in order to get you to pass [...]
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Portugal Trip, part 2
With Dessa a lot of things improved. Food wise especially. She bought some fresh bread and local Jamon (is that how you write it?), fresh fruits!!!!! and freshly brewed coffee every morning. That tells you how lazy I got over the course of 2 months.
The food excitement didn’t last long as everybody else did not [...]
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Right now I am sitting in our garden back in Italy. The sun is shining, its a little cooler though, but still very nice, birds are singing, the wind is is not blowing but “flowing” and I am happy all over the place.
The last 2 weeks were really challenging. We sailed almost 600 miles, did [...]
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Morocco/Ceuta
Right now it is 10pm or if we would say on the boat “2200”. I am sitting in the salon of our Bavaria 44 “Time Out” right in Morocco. Well, actually in Ceuta, which is a little part of Spain on the coastline of Morocco just opposite of Gibraltar. What happened so far?
Sunday morning we [...]
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