This is not a 'what have we been doing' blog. This is a reflection on our new life. As I write this ellen and anna are sitting at the table in the cockpit making purple paint out of blue and red, john is making pasta, and I am indulging in a bit of pondering. It seems odd to me now that it was at all a big decision to leave Prestwick and sell up to come and live on a boat. It seems even odder that living on a boat seemed like such a different thing to do - that i...

Liz here again! We haven't had wifi for ages now, hence the lack of emails and blogs! Carrying on from last time - we have been having a very sociable time! We took John and Elizabeth (the windsurfing people we met - the name coincidence doesn't end there - Elizabeth is also part of the Douglas clan!!!) for a day sail round the Mar Menor, ending up at Los Nietos - a small harbour with just about room for us on their visitors pontoon. We were allowed to stay for a...

Liz here again! We are anchored in the Mar Menor (an inland sea just North of Cartagena). A French couple who we were friends with stopped by the night before we left for a drink (or few) and mentioned kindly that I spoke good French! I think my accent was better for a couple of red wines! Our trip here from Cartagena was lovely - we set off early in the morning, and after getting refuelled (with no leaks from the newly repaired tanks) we mostly sailed here, gett...

Well its my turn to write a blog (Liz) as John wrote the last one. This one will have less sailing terminology in I promise! We are in Cartagena, and have been for about a week. We are tied up in the marina here (we found out yesterday that we are tied up in the expensive marina here - the other one which is not in the pilot book is about half price! We will know better next time!) on a visitors berth which means that we are alongside the touristy promenade. It i...

Blog 4Well we have had an interesting few days with its ups and downs! Leaving Almeria was no problem and we motored and sailed up to San Jose in pleasant conditions, as we passed the bay before San Jose we commented on how that would probably be the best anchorage for the wind direction but pressed on as a number of people had told us that San Jose town was lovely. As we were keen to see it we attempted to get in at the yacht club and were initially told they wo...