Foxy’s Bar, Jost Van Dyke, BVIs
We’ve never managed to escape the winter gloom before. Too much work stopping play. We have friends who’ve done it nearly every year – well, certainly for the last ten […]
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Marina Cay, British Virgin Islands
The circuit anticlockwise around the British Virgin Islands takes about a week, covering 85-90 nautical miles. The winds are almost always reliable easterlies giving you a bit of work as […]
Pirate’s Bight, Norman Island, BVIs
Often the first stop on a round-the-islands tour that is sailing in the BVIs, mooring in Pirate’s Bight on Norman Island epitomises all that is special about the experience. Claimed […]
Albergo Gardesana, Torri del Banaco, Lake Garda
It took us over eleven hours to drive the 350 miles from Stuttgart to get here. OK, it was a Saturday in August but tales of super fast Autobahns were […]
Piccolo’s, Smokvica Vela, Croatia
Boats cruising the Dalmatian coast are sometimes provided with a copy of “A Gourmet Cruise: the Adriatic Good Food Pilot”. Now, don’t get your hopes up, it mostly stretches to […]
Stupica Vela, Zirje, Croatia
March seems to have been a bit thin for reviews and, although we’ve not been anywhere new, there’s been a lot of revisiting old haunts. The much promised trip to […]
Mediteran, Primosten, Croatia
Anyone venturing north from Split or Trogir by yacht, heading for the Kornati Islands, is well advised to use Primosten as a stopping off point. Its holding for anchoring isn’t […]
Sharrow Bay, Ullswater, Lake District
We used to sail a little dinghy on Ullswater, keeping it on the shore in a friendly [and cheap] field on the northern shore. It was a Cornish Coble which […]
Dahabieh “Meroe”, Nour El Nil, Luxor
The dahabieh Meroe, by Nour El Nil, the most beautiful boat on the Nile. Since the revolution in Egypt tourism has drained away. Nearly all of the large boats which […]
Paris Plages, Paris
When it gets too hot in August, Paris empties out into the cool of the countryside, the restaurants close, the hotels drop their prices and the tourists replace the residents. […]
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