30 responses so far ↓

• 1 Lesley, Gavin and Kate // Mar 4, 2010 at 2:56 pm

  Hi Mary and David. Left an email on cobble1, but can’t remember if you get that where you are. Anyway, you’ll pick it up sometime. Just to say many thanks for Kate’s bonny jumper and postcard. Showed the postcard to my neighbour who worked there for a year quite some time ago. Brought back loads of memories for her. We wish you well as you continue roaming the oceans. Tara the noo from the snowy highlands!

  Lesley, Gavin, baby Kate and Dougal the Wonderdog. xxx

• 2 Diane // Feb 11, 2010 at 12:19 pm

  Reva and Ken…friend from SA.. Diane.. can you drop me a line please. Thanks

• 3 KIM // Oct 6, 2009 at 12:41 am

  Kirsty,
  Oh God. I’ve just heard the tsunami news in samoa.
  Hope everything alright.
  Plz leave me a message if you’re ok.

  KIM

• 4 Pete Geddes // Sep 30, 2009 at 7:03 am

  Calling all Sailors!

  The Geddes’s have just seen the tsunami news on the bbc website and I’m checking all is safe and well?

  Take care,

  Pete x

• 5 KIM // Sep 4, 2009 at 5:07 pm

  Dear Mr.Wilson
  I’m not sure here is the right place to ask to keep in touch with Kirsty. This is Kirsty’s one of Asian friends who are really missing her. Plz tell Kirst me and firegirl are dying to see her. If she has any chance to visit Korea while she goes on trip from NewZealand to SouthEast Asia, we are very very glad to welcome her. Hope good luck to your trip!
  Thank you.

• 6 Natalie Lovegrove // Jun 8, 2009 at 10:12 pm

  Hi David and Mary!

  Having a look at your pictures finally I gor the right website! Looks like you’ve had some amazing adventures! We’ve just got back from a week’s camping on the isle of Mull which was great we had the most amazing weather and saw lots of wildlife it reminded us of our trip with David sailing in the Sound of Mull which we thoroughly enjoyed! We have recently joined the boating ranks and invested in an inflatable canoe but I’m not sure we are fast enough to give Giselle a run for her money

  Hope you are both well and the sun is shinning!
  Love Natalie (and David)
  xxx

• 7 William Burgess // May 21, 2009 at 5:35 pm

  Hello David & Mary

  Just in case you’ve forgotten who I am, I’m Philip’s friend who BBQ’d with you in Tobermory and again visited Giselle on land at MRC when you were preparing for this voyage. Would love to keep in touch and very envious of your current location, or near location. Galapagos is on my bucket list if I live long enough!

  Look forward to hearing from you if you can find a moment to email me.

  Best regards,
  William

• 8 Gordon and Rita // May 18, 2009 at 8:59 pm

  Hope this gets through. Sounds as though you are having a great time and envy you being close to the Galapagos especially as I look out on yet another squall hitting the window.
  Love Gordon and Rita

• 9 ruth herman // May 18, 2009 at 7:11 pm

  Giselle certainly attracts some interesting wildlife! Not sure if egrets are recommending eating. Mudskipper was home to a pigeon from Portugal to Ireland. Couldn’t get rid of it so landed at Cork with it much to the amusement of local fishermen who reckoned we should have made pigeon pie!
  Dancing rays - now that’s something!
  good sailing
  Ruth & Pete

• 10 glenys // Mar 3, 2009 at 9:53 pm

  Ok ..Ok..lets try this blog thing again. I have just spent and hour(or so) roaming through your fantastic photos and getting a flavour of the fun you must be having and thinking I fancy a sopt of that fun! You both look so well!Early retirement potentially on the horizon for me but not quite yet for Alan. However without the restriction of school holidays we could start to think about a trip to join you after Ruth and Robin get married in Sept this year!! Likely to be in 2010 so we will consult the itinerary and yourselves about a suitable rendevous!
  Love to you both
  Glenys

• 11 Michael // Feb 27, 2009 at 12:39 pm

  Oops!!!… there will be some champagne too (: 0

• 12 Michael // Feb 23, 2009 at 9:16 am

  Extra Shampange for the forthcoming season!!!

  For the two imposters onboard Giselle, please pass this message to Mary and David.
  Just had hot of the press news that Council tax is Frozen fro the forcoming year. and guess what, the Old jail will stay open for the forthcoming season…

• 13 kirsty // Feb 21, 2009 at 2:24 pm

  found the videos, oops was looking in the wrong place!

• 14 kirsty // Feb 21, 2009 at 1:50 pm

  Just been looking at photos of Jane and alisdairs visit and had a few comments that i thought you would enjoy!!! (or not!)
  pic 4: her clearly saw you coming, saw the scottish flag hanging from the mast and found the biggest scottish flag he could and tied it to the side of his boat so you would buy som coconut and friut from him!
  pic 5: should this not be titled pigeons sitting on pigeon rock??
  pic 19: this is amazing
  pic 22: cant use your normal “look for the tallest mast” technique here can you!
  Hope you having fun- i cant find the videos you have uploaded? there not with the photos taken with becca?
  xxxx

• 15 Carol & Peter Bailey // Feb 10, 2009 at 10:27 am

  Mary and David,

  We met with your sister Barbara last month in Scotland. She was sharing your plans and experiences with us as we are something similar; just a bit behind you!

  We have been sailing Bali Blue for 6-7 months each summer over the last 5 years and have fully explored the Med. We will be back on the boat in April in Crete, to meet up with the end of the current Blue Water Rally. We will then sail to Gibraltar over summer, to meet up with the start of the 2009-2011 rally, which we will be joining.

  We don’t sail as far south as New Zealand, so it looks like our paths may cross in Indonesia or thereabouts.

  Meantime, we will be perusing your blog as part of our ongoing preparation. If there are any other insights you’d be prepared to share, they’d be most welcome!

  Our experiences (on sea and land) are on our website (user=baliblue, password=sailing). It has served us well and is in the middle of an upgrade to better present some of the sailing aspects.

  We wish you fair winds and look forward to dipping ensigns somewhere along the way….

  Carol

• 16 David // Jan 13, 2009 at 9:31 pm

  Many thanks for your comment Meike, Catrin and Andre. The e-mail we have for you doesn’t seem to work. Can you send one to Rebecca for her to forward to us and then we will have your correct address. thanks David

• 17 Fam.Franz // Jan 5, 2009 at 10:10 pm

  Hello Mary, hello David,

  we send you all our best wishes for 2009.
  Hope you had a nice christmas?

  We were celebrating with the whole family at my grandparents new house (they built it last year).
  I’m not sure if I(Meike) have told you that i am living 400km from Saalfeld away. I’ve been working near Heidelberg for 1 1/2 years now. So im not often at home.

  We always enjoy looking at your photos and hope everything is going well with you?
  Take care.

  Bye for now.
  Lots of Love
  Meike, Catrin, Andre & Vitus

• 18 Janice // Dec 29, 2008 at 11:18 pm

  Hi Mary Finally getting round to contacting you again. We have joined 21st century as Santa brought us broadband so now (hopefully) I will be able to do e mail loads quicker than before. Pictures look wonderful and hope you had a lovely Christmas… great that Andrew managed out. I have new email address and I promise to start checking it more regularly!!!! Have a brilliant hogmanay… show them how to celebrate in good old scottish style! and have a brilliant 2009. Speak soon Janice x

• 19 Katrina // Dec 22, 2008 at 1:22 pm

  Hello you pair of happy wanderers. Just a quick note to say thank you (I tried sending an e-mail but it kept getting bounced back as undeliverable).

  Anyway A Big Thank you for the lovely surprise, I have huge plans for it starting off with breakfast on Christmas Morning.

  Take care and have a fantastic Christmas.

  Love

  Katrina & Stuart

• 20 David And Joyce Firth // Dec 17, 2008 at 11:14 am

  Have been following your adventures faithfully - what a riot of colour and food you’ve encountered.

  Best of luck and thanks for putting up such a well crafted blog. Really appreciated.

• 21 Katrina // Dec 14, 2008 at 11:58 am

  I can’t believe how quickly you seemed to have got across the Atlantic.

  Thoroughly enjoy reading your updates.

  Take care both of you.

  Love

  Katrina, Stuart, Mr B and all the rest of the gang.

• 22 Fam. Franz // Oct 27, 2008 at 1:07 pm

  Hello from germany!!! Hope all is going well?
  We look at your page regularly to catch up all the news.
  So take care and enjoy !! Best wishes Meike,Catrin, Andre & Vitus (the dog)

• 23 Helene et Hubert // Oct 15, 2008 at 7:21 pm

  Hello,we were together in Ribadeo.
  Our boat is a Targa “vent d’ouest”.We are very
  happy to know your trip in portugal.
  We are at home.We left our boat in Viveiro and
  will sail again next spring.
  We will follow you in your beautyful travel.
  Best wishes…..

• 24 Mary // Sep 18, 2008 at 11:01 am

  Thanks for your email Liz, I’m glad your enjoying our blog. We’re certainly having fun, and life goes on at a different pace! If Bob wants to pester me then that’s fine I expect he has been on the web to see our route and plans. Technical questions go to David though! Obviously happy for him to publish our web site. Is the Bridge on line?
  You will be glad to hear that I’ve been using the Rick Stein cookbook, we had squid last night, so I needed a step by step guide on how to prepare and cook. It was quite easy though, and not chewy! Very cheap to at 2 euros, with enough for 2 main course. Food is generally cheaper though, certainly it’s easy to eat out for next to nothing and have a very good meal, usually sea food around here.
  I thought I would have had this reply sent to you before class was back, but manana!
  Hope all went well and that there are enough numbers to make it worth while and that you all got some work done!
  During the transfer of information from house computer to laptop I have “lost” most of my email addresses, so it would be good if folk want to keep in touch if they could email me with their address, same goes for Thursday evening addresses so if you could leave then a note at class that would be great.
  Anyway best be off now, Davids mum arrives today for a few days so perhaps should tidy up!

  Mary

• 25 Liz Duncan // Sep 4, 2008 at 10:15 pm

  Hi Mary
  Enjoyed looking at the photos and catching up with your progress. It look as though you are both having fun and enjoying yourselves.
  Bob attended a meeting of the “Bridge” the local, community news sheet and was asked if he would contribute an article on your adventure!!
  No doubt he will now pester you for requests for lots of information regarding your trip so that the readers can be kept up to date with your progress. The Bridge features lots of public and human interest articles. Glad all is going well with you We will continue to monitor your progress!
  Best regards
  Liz and Bob Duncan

• 26 Janice // Jul 14, 2008 at 8:59 pm

  Hi! Finally managed to beat my technophobia and get on to your website.. . and I have managed to read all the bits and look at all the photos. Hope you are impressed!! ( I was!)Sorry I couldn’t be there for the leaving party but it looks as though you had quite a crowd.We had a drink(or two) in Costa de la Luz and toasted your safe and exciting journey. Bet you never realised how important your class was to Remant Kings… they are closing in a few weeks…missing you already!! Take care and enjoy.

• 27 Liz Black // Jul 12, 2008 at 8:09 am

  Hi, hope all is going well.
  The weather is very mixed here in “The Trossachs”
  Busy making strawberry jam - and it’s set! Doune Show was quite eventful - a cow escaped and had to be shot in Dunblane, but thankfully no-one was hurt.
  Bye for now.

• 28 Mary // Jul 10, 2008 at 12:03 pm

  Thanks Marion, we had a great day it was sad exciting and dry! Photos will be coming of the day so keep looking!

• 29 Marion Bone // Jul 6, 2008 at 12:22 pm

  I hope the launch of this epic journey went well and we wish you all the best and hope you find the sunshine.

• 30 Andy // Aug 20, 2007 at 7:44 pm

  Dude,

  I am just about to leave for St Petersburg. Taking a charter from Helsinki to St Petersburg, to Tallinn and then back to Helsinki. Actually I live in Edinburgh! Any chance of a quick phone call to pick your brains about border crossing etc. Andy - send me an email first. Thanks.

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