This one is so simple good(ish) for you and ingredients can be found in any good fruit store. (As if you would use a bad store) Long wooden skewer Melon Pineapple Banana Butter syrup cocoa powder Cut the fruit into even sized pieces. Thread onto skewer, mixing fruit. For the chocolate sauce, Butter, syrup and [...]

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A few days on our own, a quiet hogmanay in Marin, and we take off walking around the bottom end of Martinique, great walk around the coast, passing some of the best beaches from the sheltered west coast to the great Atlantic side with all the swell rolling in.

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New photos in the gallery. New Year’s walk, Sail to Antigua and being in Falmouth Harbour. These are from the time between Andrew’s and Rebecca’s Visit. Much of the time when Giselle was in Antigua Mary was at home visiting Family. The link in “where are we” is for Bourg in Les Saintes to the [...]

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So no comments on the windward vs leeward islands question. My thoughts are that it relates to where they are on the voyage from Europe and back. Sailors travel south from Europe to nearly Cape Verde Islands then across to caribbean. They return to Europe via Bermuda and Azores. So you would conclude all your [...]

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So we have been sailing here for 6 weeks and got used to the grouping of the southern islands as the Windward Islands (Martinique, St Lucia, St Vincent, Grenada) and the northern islands as the leewards (Dominica, Guadeloupe, Antigua etc). We are in the North East trade winds. How are the northern islands to leeward [...]

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Had a great few days sailing up to Antigua. Including a real blast into Antigua from Deshaies on the NE corner of Guadeloupe in 25 to 30 knots of wind. The maintenance we had scheduled for St Lucia I am doing here in Falmouth harbour. All the key people are within a short dinghy ride! [...]

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As predicted last year, all our Christmas wishes are by email, so here we are.So this is Christmas. We are in Puerto Calero, Lanzarote, 16th November 2008. The sun is shining and I’m in shorts so I don’t really feel I should be writing this now. We have had a great six months,

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