We departed France for an overnight passage to Spain and a new area to explore. We experienced a little bad luck however, and the weather became more unsettled.
Yearly archives: 2019
Completing our summer travels along the Cote d'Azur, from Antibes to our departure for Spain from the Marseilles area. Two months enjoying varied anchorages, easy access to shore and beautiful coastal trails
Sailing the South of France
From Villefranche-Sur-Mer we headed west to anchor off Antibes. The anchorage provided a great location for us to explore ashore where we visited the Picasso museum, a grand garden and enjoyed coastal walks.
Exploring Antibes
Emerald returns to France, the very first country we visited in her, back in 2004. We spent over two weeks in the area of Villefranche, taking land visits to Nice and Monaco and enjoying the many delights of the town and area.
Sailing to the South of France
A purposely slow sail to San Remo where we spent one night on the transit quay and had a whistlestop visit around the town
Slow Boat to San Remo
After a gentle motorsail from Elba to Corsica, we set out in a heatwave to walk part of the Customs Path around Cap Corse
Following in the Footsteps of the Corsican Customs Men
We squeaked and rolled our way to Elba for our third visit to the island to enjoy some walks and a snorkel on the Elviscot wreck
A Squeaky Return to Elba
Or the “if only we had a Cruising Chute” passage. As we waited in Porto Istana, we began to make plans for continuing on to the south of France based on the resources we had available. What goes into a passage plan? Our starting point is the weather. We’re not […]
Just a Giglio
We tend to find single night passages to be more tiring that multi-day ones. During a single night our bodies have no time to adjust to the rhythm of the 3 hour watch system and we generally end up not sleeping very well. So after three overnight passages in a […]
Relaxing in Sardinia
A tale of Three Passages tells the story of our travels from Monastir in Tunisia to the north east of Sardinia via three, overnight passages
A Tale of Three Passages
Our last week in Monastir - stocking up the boat, squeezing in a visit to a hammam and check out.
Our Last Week in Monastir
A trip to the south of Tunisia to visit the desert. We based ourselves in the town of Tozeur for two days from where we could visit an oasis, ride camels and drive over the sand in a 4WD