Back in Montenegro Returning to a boat after a long time feels like returning as a 13-year-old to your first girlfriend after the summer holidays. You never know. We knew from the remote monitoring that the electricity and […]
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Offseason: Egypt This is our penultimate non-sailing trip before we return to the Rivercafe and the new season begins. This trip took us to Egypt, on the Red Sea, 100 nm across from Saudi Arabia. Our first visit
Murder in St. Vincent & the Grenadines I had just finished writing a new report on our trip to Egypt when we received more important and shocking news. Two sailors are believed to have been murdered in the
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Sailing in Greece My inner clock is telling me persistently that it’s time to sail. Last night I woke up because I heard a strong wind outside. I was about to get up to go for a walk
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Christmas time in Thailand and Spain With our departure from Istanbul, we made our way to more Christmassy mood places. Royal Jordanian flew us to Bangkok via Amman and we can tell only the best about this airline.
Turkey – visiting a friends wedding As soon as we had left the Rivercafe in Montenegro, secured with 10 mooring lines and extra fenders, there was no more time for new travel reports. We were very glad that
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Montenegro – Winter break for Rivercafe After three years, 16,096 nautical miles (nm) or 29,809 sailed kilometres in three continents, we moored our Rivercafe in a home port for the very first time. The last sailing leg of
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Ciao Italia The limited attractiveness of southern Italy quickened our pace. We lengthened our day trips and shortened the number of stops. From Crotone we left Calabria in the morning in complete darkness and headed for Apulia, 75
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Calabria – bad weather, long sailing days First things first: thank you very much for all the birthday greetings, it was a pleasure. As was the delicious pistachio cake that Ka made. The day, which was also unavoidable
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Aeolian Islands 13,000 people have chosen a somewhat remote place to live. North-east of Sicily you can find the Aeolian Islands, the Islas di Eolias in the original. Seven of the islands are inhabited and they offer a
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