Category: Travel
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Tripping North
After a week of on-call post Christmas, I had a week of PTO with K visiting (we spent Christmas with her parents in Germany). The weather was variable, as it usually is in Ireland, but we got in a few nice walks; we had a rental car for the week, so we were able to…
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Holiday – July 2018
The original plan for July’s holiday was to sail Blue Opal to the south of Ireland in a series of day-sails, do some exploration and relaxation, and then either leave her in a marina until I could find a crew to bring her back, or do a longish sail back up on the flood tide.…
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Hamburg & Helgoland
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August Holiday – Barbados
A trip to the land of my birth in August – most of the photos are from Flower Forest. August is not a good time to visit Barbados due to the general lack of breeze; even those of us who grew up there find it pretty damn hot.
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Bequia to St. Vincent to Barbados
Up before the sun. Tidied up the ropes, and we were off into the Bequia channel by 0650 (after bathing Mum in vinegar because she ran in to some jellyfish on her morning swim). The channel was rougher than the leg down, but nowhere near as rough as weโve seen it before, so it was…
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Bequia Redux
Up at 06:00. Hot night, even with the windscoop. Came up on deck to find us pointing to the west, which is even more unusual than pointing to the south. Some small entertainment on the โSailingโ channel โ a charter yacht arrived around 06:10, dropped anchor, lifted anchor, moved, dropped anchor, lifted anchor, moved and…
