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Two Years Retired
My dad encouraged me to learn to sail when I was about eight, as he himself was building experience and taking courses to allow him to fulfil his own dream for…
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Island Life
If Covid hadn’t jiggled up 2020 (and 2021…), we would by now be enjoying yacht island hopping somewhere warm in South East Asia. But, if this is the year of…
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Welcome to Middle Earth!
Confession. I never liked the Lord of the Rings or Hobbit films. My grandfather gave me the Tolkien novels when I was just a little too young to deal with…
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Out with the old, in with the new!
I’ve seen plenty of posts on social media etc wishing away 2020, wanting to write off what for many was an insane, terrible year. Just one friend’s Facebook post stood…
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Re-becoming Kiwi
It’s a disconcerting feeling, returning to your home country and not, well, feeling totally at home. I’ve only myself to blame – I left 24 years ago, first for a…
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The Wild Wild East
The last time I’d been around the remote East Cape of New Zealand was on a family holiday when I was about seven or eight. Growing up on a berry…
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Introducing Cyril!
Meet Cyril! Cyril’s a 2004 Transit Camper Van who’s had a busy life running mainly international tourists around the hot spots of beautiful Aotearoa. But like us, over the last…
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Dining In In Isolation
We are set for release this afternoon! It’s funny thinking that our 14 days in NZ Managed Isolation is about the same time it took us to sail from Dubai…
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Out of India
We arrived back in Auckland a few days ago and are currently holed up in one of the NZ government Managed Isolation facilities. Thankfully the NZ government provides quite a…
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Abandon Ship!
We’ve been ‘stuck’ in India now for almost eight months – four months longer than we intended. According to the “original plan” we should already have enjoyed May and June…
The next chapter in life
