My mother’s garden
If you read this blog often, you know how much I love walking around gardens. I love the Caribbean gardens. But I also have a home and there is definitely the most beautiful garden in the whole world. …
If you read this blog often, you know how much I love walking around gardens. I love the Caribbean gardens. But I also have a home and there is definitely the most beautiful garden in the whole world. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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. …
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 …
The new freedom Oh happy day. I can’t tell you how much we were looking forward to this injection. We did it in the middle of the week and are now finally fully vaccinated. This will make our …
Meeting my loved ones When we sold the house I knew a big part of my home was now gone. So I was always curious to see what it would be like to return home after sailing away. …
Underwater world We have been living aboard the Rivercafe for half a year now. 9 months ago we left Luxembourg and our old life. And this week, we have learned that our kids will not be coming to …