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France to Malta: November 2008
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This blog is now finished. If you would like to follow us next year as we travel in Greece,. Please follow this link. And then bookmark it. Sunday, November 9, 2008. Lindsay's diary 29 Aug - 18 Oct. After a futile search for letters for our dingy (we found letters but not the right ones for Rosa) we trooped round the office for permits - shut! Nice area surrounded by small Italian-med style villas looking old with trees dotted around. We piled into the Tinker and motored round to see how the other ha...
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France to Malta: July 2008
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This blog is now finished. If you would like to follow us next year as we travel in Greece,. Please follow this link. And then bookmark it. Thursday, July 17, 2008. We took a week to return Rosa from a canal boat to a sailing boat again. Sounds like a lot of time but there is a surprising amount to be done. There are obvious big tasks. Navicartes have to be replaced with Pilot books and charts. After 300 hours, the engine needs a good service, and so on, and so on. O be completely unable to see it! The w...
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France to Malta: Aeolian Isles
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This blog is now finished. If you would like to follow us next year as we travel in Greece,. Please follow this link. And then bookmark it. Wednesday, October 15, 2008. It was almost large enough for Rosa to get into – mast and all. With deep blue water underneath. Lindsay spotted what looked like rubbish in the water – but it turned out to be floating pumice. We caught few pieces in our net. The anchorage is spectacular with the volcano brooding and smoking above, black sand all around and huge pillars ...
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France to Malta: Down Eastern Sardinia
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This blog is now finished. If you would like to follow us next year as we travel in Greece,. Please follow this link. And then bookmark it. Friday, September 26, 2008. Well, here we are again back on passage. We relaxed in the Bonefaccio strait with Rob and Maggie for a couple of weeks visiting places old and places new. Rob went for a row in the tinker to get some pictures of Rosa sailing under Spinaker. Very Pretty! We left to anchor at Cala Condo Cavalo and only just made it before nightfall. Anot...
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France to Malta: August 2008
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This blog is now finished. If you would like to follow us next year as we travel in Greece,. Please follow this link. And then bookmark it. Sunday, August 31, 2008. Saturday 16th - 27th August. Today was our Corsica crossing! Very uncomfortable ride although it did ease up somewhat on the Corsican side. Arrived at 7 am and after trying to rouse Calvi harbourmaster decided to attached ourselves to a buoy ourselves. Big mistake! Never follow a Southerly! Arrived in Bonifaccio, a busy harbour with a distinc...
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France to Malta: October 2008
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This blog is now finished. If you would like to follow us next year as we travel in Greece,. Please follow this link. And then bookmark it. Tuesday, October 21, 2008. Malta has been a mixture of wonderful trusting helpful people, gorgeous architecture and chaotic byzantine bureaucracy. So we entered Marsamxett harbour under the bastions of Valetta which is very impressive indeed. We have to go to Valetta but tomorrow morning will do. After an hour it was all sorted out. The customs man told us that E...
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France to Malta: Sicily East coast
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This blog is now finished. If you would like to follow us next year as we travel in Greece,. Please follow this link. And then bookmark it. Sunday, October 19, 2008. We went down the East coast fairly quickly as we wanted to take advantage of the settled weather to cross to Malta. Also with no reservations allowed, we wanted to ensure our place in the queue for a winter berth. On Wednesday we went to Riposto which is a good starting point for a trip to Etna. We were hoping for a gentle sail of 25 mil...
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France to Malta: September 2008
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This blog is now finished. If you would like to follow us next year as we travel in Greece,. Please follow this link. And then bookmark it. Friday, September 26, 2008. Well, here we are again back on passage. We relaxed in the Bonefaccio strait with Rob and Maggie for a couple of weeks visiting places old and places new. Rob went for a row in the tinker to get some pictures of Rosa sailing under Spinaker. Very Pretty! We left to anchor at Cala Condo Cavalo and only just made it before nightfall. Anot...
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