Hello again. In our previous blog we described the last leg of our roundtrip in Tunisia, visiting Jasmin, Hammamet, Tunis and finishing in ancient Carthage the capital of the Punic empire 650–149 BC. Back on the boat we said farewell to our Tunisian friends Ramy and Kawthar and prepared for the 340 miles sail to […]
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In our previous blog we explored the area South of Sousse like the amphitheater of El Jem, the ancient city of Mahdia, and Monastir, a popular wintering hole for cruisers. Today we continue North towards Tunis and we decided to drive via Marina Yasmine Hammamet some 10 km South of Hammamet city. Little did we
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In the previous post we drove back North in Tunisia and explored the medina of Sousse, a city of great wealth during ancient times. Today we will explore the area South of Sousse and our first stop is the amphitheater near El Jem. Thysdrus, present day El Jem, became the centre of olive oil production
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In our previous post we drove further South in Tunisia and deeper into “Berber country”. We explored a few Ksars, especially Ksar Hadada where “The Phantom Menace”, a Starwars movie, was shot. In this post we will explore Toujane (A) and drive North, to Sousse (D) where we booked a room in Dar Badia for
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In the previous post we sailed from Sicily to Bizerte in Tunisia, visited friends we know from Abu Dhabi en drove a rental car to Kairouan, Islam’s fourth holiest city. We continue driving South, deeper into Berber country. Chili peppers drying in the desert sun waiting to be milled in Bouhajla (D on the map
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In our previous blog we joined a street-food tour in Palermo and provisioned the boat for the onward journey. On Sep 22, 10.00am looking back to Palermo, feeling sorry we had to leave and feeling sad because of the wildfires in the surrounding hills. We have witnessed too many wildfires in the tourist areas around
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In our previous blog we walked among the dead in the Capuchin Catacombs, ate pastries made with centuries old recipes from the nun’s of Saint Catherine Monastery and visited stunningly beautiful churches. Now we rush through the narrow streets to our meeting point for the “evening street food tour”. The first glims of our meeting
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This blog is not about our travels but rather about the disaster with our old boat and how we dealt with it. It is a story about boat restoration. When we decided to stop working we initially decided to keep our old boat in the Mediterranean with the idea to spend the summer months on
We left Dieppe Wed Oct 23 @ 0800 am for the 20 hour 115 NM sail to Cherbourg. It was a nice sail, wing on wing with full main and Genoa for 13 hours, whereafter the wind died. We motored the last 4 hours and arrived Thu 0200 am. We had been in Cherbourg before
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We tried to leave Boulogne Sur Mer twice before but returned to the safety of the port after sticking our nose outside the breakwater. It was the sea-state that made us return. The bashing and slamming is not good for the boat, nor for our morale. We were exploring our comfort zone. The waiting paid
Exploring Dieppe, France: From Operation Jubilee to Modern Charm. Read More »