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The View From Our Bathroom Window
When we first got Aroha way back in Dubai days, on one of our first weekends we motored a short distance from the marina to anchor in a sheltered, crescent…
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Two in Thailand
One of the questions we get asked frequently is how the two of us manage to get along living in such a small space and spending most hours of most…
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Pink ‘n’ Blue
It’s hard to imagine that there is a downside to island hopping in Thailand on a sailing yacht, but the saying you don’t get something for nothing is true whatever…
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Life Afloat
We’ve become quite comfortable on board our floating home, Aroha. It’s funny thinking that we’ve owned her for about sixteen years and apart from our 2009 six-month circuit from Dubai…
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Cruising Into The New Year!
We’ve been back in Thailand for about a month now. The first week or so was spent waking Aroha, our sailing yacht, from her four-month slumber and then we set…
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Learning To Sail
Realising that it’s been over two and a half years since we set off from Dubai on our sailing yacht Aroha, now seemed like a good time to learn how…
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Going Up, Going Down
I’ve been back in the UK for several weeks now, but for a while I was starting to feel a bit “stuck” in Thailand. I didn’t want to say too…
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Cruising in Paradise
After spending far too much time and money on boat maintenance, it’s time to address our poor boat-job to sailing ratio! It’s time to go sailing! The area around Phuket…
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Bottom Cleaning in Thailand
I expected Phuket to be a smallish island ringed with hotels, resorts and restaurants, connected by a pretty coastal road – but I’m surprised at how big Phuket is. It…
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Q is for Quarantine
I clearly remember the excitement as Helen raised the Oman flag, the first time we crossed an international maritime border. That season we kept Aroha in the UAE, just south…
The next chapter in life
