Visit in Europe
Short break from ship life We have arrived in Europe. I am writing this article in the “Eifel region” of Germany. A remote area, close to Luxembourg. We have rented a house for a few weeks and have […]
Grenada to Frankfort
4 days, 5 flights, 700 USD for C19 tests After a year at sea, we are travelling back to Europe together for the first time on Sunday. At least we’re trying to. It’s time to see family and
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Grenada Spice Island
Discovering Grenada Grenada is the southernmost of the Windward Islands, at 12 degrees north. Outside of the most popular hurricane tracks. A good reason for sailors to spend the time from June to November here and a good
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Introduction to the Hurricane Season
Weather apps and reports for stormy days July has arrived and with it the first month of the official Hurricane Season is over. Four more months remain. July was storm-free throughout the Caribbean, but very annoyingly gusty. Only
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St. Vincent to Grenada
The end of the season Wednesday morning the time had come to leave our new favorite place Canouan. Along the elegant harbor exit we set course for Carriacou, the northernmost island of Grenada, our last stop before the
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Canouan Island
Hidden Paradise Canouan For sailors and other sea lovers, there are some Caribbean islands that everyone knows. Or rather, let’s say whose names are pronounced more sonorously, with a gleam in their eye. Mystique Island, Antiqua, St. Barth,
Island hooping in the Southern Caribbean
St. Vincent & Grenadines We find it really beautiful here, on the islands of “St. Vincent and the Grenadines” (SVG). A long name for a small country with only 110,000 inhabitants. Independent, but a member of the Commonwealth.
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St. Lucia to St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Windy way south Sounds like a pilgrimage, from one Saint to the next. Something like a Caribbean Camino de Santiago. For us, there were indeed a few burdens along the way. Our stop in St Lucia was unplanned.
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Sailing South
One island a day keeps the doctor away After Stéphane, despite a herniated intervertebral disc, had successfully completed our installations, we finally left the Marina Bas-du-Fort last Thursday. When we complained that we had now really spent too
Mission green accomplished
More green power for the Rivercafe Today it gets a bit more technical: it dragged on like chewing gum and took a few weeks longer than planned – the environmentally friendly upgrade of the Rivercafe’s power supply. But
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