Since waving goodbye to Helen and Mark in Lagos in August 2011 we have been following the blog of Marita III as they circumnavigated. As they got closer to us e-mails have been flying back and forth about a possible reunion and it was on Tuesday evening that we realised that tomorrow was the best day [...]

Arriving in Fiskhardo in Max was just beyond words. Here was the harbour that started our love affair with cruising in Greece – and the top place we had on our list to take our own boat. Now here we were, surveying the harbour to choose our mooring spot for Max. Even in early May all the spots on the [...]

Spending time in our favourite place in Sicily was a lovely way to end the winter and start the summer. The anchorage was peaceful, with only a few other yachts, although the arrival of superyacht ACE and her support ship, Garcon to ACE, created an interesting diversion. The market in Ortigia is rightly [...]

There comes a time towards the end of the winter when the season changes. Tantalizing glimpses of spring appear and cruisers ask, ‘can we go tomorrow….?’ But, as a dear friend told me, the last time to be on the move is during the change of season as that is when the weather is at its most unpredictable [...]

Reflecting on our second winter living aboard reminds me how lucky we are to be having this adventure. Marina Di Ragusa has been so different to Cartagena but the camaraderie of our fellow cruisers has been a consistent feature.

After our euphoria over finally reaching Sicily subsided we had a good look at the charts and made a decision. The weather was becoming more unpredictable and there were longer spells of bad weather causing delays in our plans. We wanted to see Sicily but not at the cost of poor cruising conditions. [...]