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.
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
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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