Today we celebrate the end of the year which saw us sailing off into the blue! We dressed the boat overall today (purists will note we skipped a couple of flags off the bottom of each run, as our Rival 32 has a relatively low mast, and there wasn't room for all of them.)
We wish you all, wherever you are, a very good and prosperous New Year (despite the Euro becoming more and more expensive for us exiles)!!
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01/03/2009 | Don and Ann (don att dykefoot dott net)
Happy New Year
See you later this month. Love Don and Ann |
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01/05/2009 | John Morrison (john att nlmorrison dott demon dott co dott uk)
And a happy New Year to you both! Spent much of a birthday party tonight with the master (NZ -born 2-i-c to Greek Captain) of this vessel:
http://www.centralyachtagent.com/yachts.php?id=481&d=1&uid=208&psize= Good grief, she's 8,000 tonnes DW! The same size as the shipe we're venturing out on next year (Spirit of Adventure). Clearly the credit crunch has still to strike for many..... Love, Rosy & John |
Here's a photo of Ju sitting in our festively decorated cabin, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have been following the blog and submitting comments during our journey from Ardfern to Lagos this year. It has been great to know that people are interested in our travels and adventures, and we appreciate your interest. Our ecards have all been sent now, but we would love it it you would like to send us a comment on the Christmas blog.
We have a couple of Christmas dinner events to attend, a round of carol singing on the pontoons to do, and apparently a spot of Scottish country dancing at New Year also in prospect. So we won't be missing out on celebrations, although we are a long way from home.
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12/15/2008 | Rick - s/v Godspeed (rjohnson007 att gmail dott com)
Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for a Great New Year!
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12/16/2008 | Don (don att dykefoot dott net)
Wishing you a Happy Christmas and a great New Year. Looking forward to seeing you at the end of January.
Love from Don and Ann |
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12/19/2008 | Alastair Platt (alastairplatt att ukonline dott co dott uk)
Happy Christmas and another exciting New Year from a hissing wet and miserable Scotland.
Love Alastair and Dawn PS Thanks for the ecard |
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12/19/2008 | Alastair Platt (alastairplatt att ukonline dott co dott uk)
PS. Please feel free to change the h to a p if it would make you smile, because it really is raining very hard.
Alastair |
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12/24/2008 | Irene Coleman (irene dott coleman att dsl dott pipex dott com)
Merry Christmas & bloavezh mat- as we'l be in Brittany by then - from Irene & Tom. Thanks for the e-card. Glad Cathy enjoyed her visit. Have enjoyed the blog enormously.
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The highlight of this past week has been the visit of daughter Cathy, from Largs to Lagos. Although the weather was not very warm, it was good and calm enough on Monday for us finally to take one of the boats on the river who offer trips to the grottoes out as far as Punta da Piedade. The trip did not disappoint, with amazing entries into dark caves, oddly shaped rock formations and seabirds on the rocks. I'll put some of the photos in the gallery. This one shows Cathy having fun!
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