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Tall Tales!
We had to leave the country! We both have six month tourist visas for Thailand, but one of the curious conditions is that they’re only valid for a sixty day…
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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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This Old House
I feel like we’ve really landed on our feet here in England. We had a checklist of sorts when we bought our little Victorian end of terrace house and it’s…
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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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Life’s a Beach
Life has brought us many twists and turns over the last few years, and I think we have proven ourselves to be reasonably adept at dealing with whatever comes our…
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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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