yay look at everybody
we spent the last three years sailing up
and down the mediterranean from greece
to spain um via tunisia and then back to
turkey last year
at the moment we're anchored off the
south coast of majorca in spain
it's just so nice to be able to
have a dream so long and then achieve it
we actually met when we were working as
flotilla skippers in in greece and
croatia and the tiller skippers are
people who take other people around on
boats and show them various places
we went back to the uk and we decided
then and there that one day we would
make it our life's ambition to sail
around the world together we had some
children there we kept thinking about
this dream and building up to it
we luckily had some property we bought
years back that went up in value and
that's how we bought our boat
and then we did up houses before we came
once we got to the point where we could
rent it out that's how we manage we live
off a very small amount
i think probably my hive diet was
actually the aeolian islands which are
just north of sicily and they're all
volcanic islands
and already we can see the volcano of
stromboli or the island of stromboli
which is about active volcano
hiking up there with the kids and then
being on that crater and seeing it
smoking and all the sulfur that i i
found that really exciting that's the
wonderful thing about the mediterranean
it's got so much history
meteorite monasteries in greece they're
monasteries that are built on top of
rocks that stick up into the sky
i think it was kind of spooky because
there was skulls and bones but i really
liked how the monastery was really
pretty
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our eldest daughter is she's quite
responsible so she kind of takes the
position of first mate
our youngest he's he kind of enjoys the
steering and he likes bringing up the
anchor
yeah middle one he'll be doing other
thing creative stuff he's probably
pretty good on the engine now
everybody's favorite place is the what
we call the dolphin seat right at the
bow she feels like you're flying over
the top of the water and when the
dolphins join you at the bow it's an
amazing feeling
so we think there's something wrong with
the engine
i think the engine failure was when we
were coming into malta it was panicky
because it's dark
despite terrifying what's this huge
boats passing by
not realizing we were there
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you weren't allowed out only to get food
or medication and otherwise you have to
stay in your homes and brussels
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i think when people get married and
settle down and have kids they think
that's it that's the end of their
adventures that doesn't have to be the
case it just starts off a new chapter in
your life with your kids it's that just
excitement of feeling like a free
spirits really we go where the wind
takes us
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