Just two again but not for long. Jane and Alisdair have agreed to go into the courier service and their first job is to St. Lucia, delivering parts to a yacht in transit. They have allowed themselves one week to find Giselle. However we know the arrival times of planes from London and they are [...]

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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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The gallery of photos is now complete. Link to gallery

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Well we had a Christmas visitor, he arrived just after we had tidied and cleaned Giselle from our Atlantic crossing and our signing in to Martinique. He was tall, no white beard in fact clean shaven and he brought lots of news and a big bag with presents for Christmas day. A more than welcome [...]

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I’m not going to say much about the crossing as David hopefully gave you a feeling for it each day as we crossed. There wasn’t much to see, water, sky, sometimes cloud, stars, and always flying fish, even at night, flying fish. We even had a squid on deck one night. Our watch system worked, [...]

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an extra 3 photos to the Cape Verde and Atlantic 1 albums. The whole of Atlantic 2 is new as is Christmas in the Winward Islands David

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We have worked out why they call the islands Windward islands. We had an exhilarating windward sail from Bequia to Martinique (about a 100miles) to get Andrew back for his flight. At the moment Occasional islands would fit as well. Occasional showers get you up in the middle of the night to shut the hatches! [...]

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We are in Admiralty bay, Bequia (pronounced Beckway) for Xmas.  Bequia is part of the Grenadines and is just to the south of St Vincent.  They drive on the left here and the bank notes have a youthful Queen Elizabeth on them which reinforces the colonial feel.  It’s hot but we are getting stronger than [...]

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We been here a day now.  Life on land is full of hussle and bussle!  We both managed to walk without the time at sea having any effect. The green is marvellous.  The cooling wind is very welcome as well. First task after the sign in is to find  a launderette.  Mary has kept up [...]

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