Elba to Rome
Morning of the 25th July we set off to complete our circumventing of Isola di Elba, arriving in Porto Azzurro, on the East Coast…. we were anchored around the corner from the Marina and...
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." — William Arthur Ward, Writer
Morning of the 25th July we set off to complete our circumventing of Isola di Elba, arriving in Porto Azzurro, on the East Coast…. we were anchored around the corner from the Marina and...
Apologies for the delay in our posts, been a rather manic few days! Having left Elba, our first night in Italy was spent in a lovely Marina called Cala di Medici, just south of...
Having accepted that our street cred was about to go out the window, David went to collect our lovely Renault Kangoo…. Notice the absence of any of us brave or silly enough to pose...
Steven and his mate Sam joined us yesterday on the 3rd July. More hands to help change the sails with the ever continuing variable winds! We put them to good use even before we...
We are hiding out from the winds again! The Boys went off into town and David and I stayed on the boat for a couple of hours doing some jobs, and ordering a new...
The Mistral hit, as forecast, and we hired a car for a day, bit safer than the moped!!! And ventured firstly into Olbia….and seemed to find the best part of it quickly…piccs below.. Oblia...
Yesterday we sailed, well motored, up the miles and miles of white sanded coast towards Olbia. Saw a beautiful black hulls 115 ft yacht along the way, which was beautiful to watch and seemingly...
Arbatax was a strange little place with the friendliest of marina staff and a bunch of supposedly famous “Red Rocks”. After a walk around, a not so quick stop to the smallest but busiest...
We left Cagliari with a view to bay hopping up the East Coast, stopping at Villasimius on the most south east tip of Sardegna, where we ended up staying for 4 nights, 2 on...
After a beautifully gentle sail out from the bay of Teulada, a stop in an idyllic bay with turquoise translucent waters ( we have a wee book on the bays in Sardinia, packed with...