Mamma Mia! A little story about fueling up...
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Fueling up in Italy is a game we have yet to figure out how to win...
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‘YOU SEE, aDVENTURES ARE STUBBORN THINGS; THEY DON’T START WHEN YOU ARE READY AND THEY HANG AROUND LONG AFTER YOU THINK THEY’VE FINISHED. THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT YOU SAY YES TO THEM’
ABI ELPHINSTONE, The Pocket elephant
Portoferraio, Elba
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Elba was a pleasant surprise. Elegant, relaxed, and without a hint of posh. I don't ever recall meeting anyone who had been on holiday to Elba. They are all missing out.
Read MoreTuscan Cooking Class
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We cooked an insanely scrumptious feast, laughed with new friends, sung to our food and sunk copies amounts of Chianti. A thoroughly good day!
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Pisa & her leaning tower
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A surprising amusement to our day was the full hour we spent watching the tourists posing in front of the tower. There was the finger press, the leg squat, the push-over, the lean back or my favourite of them all, the family force!
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Vernazza, Cinque Terra
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It is charming, both the walks and the villages. Each breathtaking path between villages is a rewardingly steep couple of hours in length. The train tracks, cut through the same cliffs you clamber over, run effortlessly along the line so you can walk as many sections as you care in a day and the train will deliver you back the way you came. Ideal.
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Genoa
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Often shadowed by other tourist cities such as Rome or Venice, I found it took me some digging to warm to Genoa. It was a maze and I felt perennially lost. For Captain the history of the port and the architecture were enough to set him in good stead. Once I'd found some hidden gems behind the meandering alleyways and walked a while the ancient bones of the place crept in and led to more of an understanding between us...
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Fête de la Musique
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On Sunday Captain and I spent the evening roaming Nice enjoying Fete de la Musique, a celebration of musical talent on the streets...
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The Mediterranean
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Arriving in Cannes before the boat gave us a day to explore without feeling like there was work to be done.
Read MoreBeam Me Up
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D-day has arrived. Departure day. We’ve spent five days taking apart everything we had spent three months setting up. De-rigged, unstepped the mast, stowed, padded and prepared.
Read MoreSix frenchman tussle with Silver Paw's Mast
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Unstepping a mast is supposed to be a fairly straightforward process, I’m told. It didn’t go that way for us. After a few days of preparations we thought we had it ready to hoist, but Pierre took one crank at our shrouds and shook his head...
Read MoreBye Jersey, hello Carteret
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We have embarked on our journey, Jersey you will be missed but we are so excited for the adventure! Our first port of call, Carteret.
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