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Preparing for Passage
One of the definitions of sailboat cruising is “fixing your boat in exotic locations”. It’s true, to enjoy the cruising lifestyle, you need to be adept at maintaining your floating…
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Flight Anxiety
Being only our third international trip in 18 months, I surprised myself with just how anxious I was at the thought of getting back on a plane. The ever-evolving Covid…
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On The Move Again
We’ve been here in the UK for almost three and a half months and the exciting time to move on (again!) has come! Tomorrow we head back to India to…
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We Bought a House!
We bought a house! It’s quite an exciting change, and after renting for so long over the past decades it’s nice to have a base that we can really call…
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Meet Daphne!
This is our Renault Zoe. Her names’s Daphne. She’s pretty much the EV (electric vehicle) version of the popular little Clio. But being fully electric, she’s zero emissions at source. …
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First Flight
It’s only been two weeks since the last blog, but it feels like lots has happened in the meantime. For starters, we moved 18,000 km away! We’ve always planned to…
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Van Life Reflections
We’re hoping to leave Aotearoa New Zealand for the UK within the next month or so, and a big part of that is preparing Cyril for sale. To be honest,…
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Holding Pattern
An attraction of leaving the corporate world and going sailing was not having to plan too much, or too far in advance. In our “old lives” we planned a lot. …
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The Mad Cow of Whangamomona!
We’ve tried and failed to visit the Taranaki area on the west coast of the North Island earlier, and it’s a part of the country that neither Helen nor I…
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Lockdown Leveller
It’s been just over a year since we returned to Aotearoa New Zealand, completed our hotel MIQ (managed isolation and quarantine) and were released into the freedom of Covid free…
The next chapter in life
