Season is over
Rivercafe comes ashore If you believe in signs, then we got a clear one from Mother Nature. A clear hint from the weather that it was time to end our season. As our friends made their way to […]
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Lost in the Caribbean
Corona, Chaos, Clouds Thank you very much for your suggestions on my naming dilemma. Many have suggested their own names and I appreciate that. Interestingly, there was no nickname at all, as I don’t want to change my
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Guadeloupe – this week without any drama
AbsoluteIy necessary: I need a new name After an exciting and spectacular past week, our wish has indeed come true: little excitement this week. We are still in Guadeloupe, still on the main island, still in the capital
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The Long Road to Flow
or: Shitty Wedding Day Our daughter Jil once developed a great program in her human resources profession: How to flow. We have been waiting for such a flow for quite a while now. Short version, because faithful readers
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Rivercafe wins ARC+ catamaran rallye
Beautiful St Lucia awakens It’s nice to wake up in the morning and see green hills, palm trees and birds. And it’s nice to sleep regularly again, not getting out of the bunk in the middle of the
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Ascension calling
Stopping in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean On August19 at 2:30 p.m. Kitty, the incredibly helpful Harbor Master of Ascension Island informed us that our guys have arrived in Georgetown. Crew and yacht are fine and do
How routing offshore works
And then everything turns out differently While our Rivercafe makes its way north through the waves of the South Atlantic, this is a good opportunity to talk a little bit about the route planning. For days the brave
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The miracle of the 23
Only 5,200 nm to Rivercafe Adieu Rhein, bienvenue “La Mer”. Since we replaced the Rhine by the sea a week ago, everything is back on track. And it’s the real sea, the Atlantic ocean. The last few weeks
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A brief view back
Here we go! When a person is about to take a new, completely overwhelming step into uncertainty, a brief look back is therapeutically valuable. That day is today. We have now sold our beautiful house and literally left
Everything will change
Leopard in shutdown I have hardly digested my celebration champaign – to the news that the Rivercafe delivery date is confirmed – and everything is already different. The South African government has decreed a shutdown until April 16th.
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