We are busy making final preparations for our departure on March 2. Fortunately, we have plenty of time for that these weeks. It feels like a special "in between" time between a busy work life / our trip to...
A special and active last quarter in 2024
The last quarter of 2024 is special and active. Special because we both stop working as of November 1 and also get on a plane to Australia right away that day 🦘🇦🇺🌏😊. There we will stay for 7.5 weeks. A perfect start...
Summer 2024 - 'working vacation' on the Grevelingen
We are spending the whole summer on the Grevelingen. After all, we are going to stop working November 1 this year so we don't have a summer vacation planned. Instead, we are making it a "working vacation. The first part of the...
Spring 2024 - including trip to Chatham and London
Spring, like last winter and fall, is also relatively cold and very wet. Never before has so much rain fallen in the Netherlands in spring 🌧️. That's because last year was an El Niño year which made...
Winter 2024 as landlubbers with three sailing weekends
It is a cold and especially wet winter. It has not rained so much and heavily in years. Therefore, we don't mind living in our fine apartment and not on the boat. Partly because our daughters are there...
Temporary 'landlubbers' again 😉 🏠
We are temporarily 'landlubbers' again now that we have been living in our fine newly completed apartment since December 8 😊. We call this the 'family rescue zone'; a place where we can always be 'home' as a family during our future traveling existence....
Indian summer and autumn in Bruinisse with lots of time for our family 😊
How time flies. It is almost November already and winter time has just started. The boat is back in "winter mode"; the cockpit tent is up (enlarging the living space), the plexiglass windows are fixed in the top windows, the...
With unstable summer weather to southern Brittany 🌦️💨
It has been 5 years since we have been to Southern Brittany, so we think it would be fun to go there again. Partly because friends boats also go that way. The challenge is to go in a summer vacation....
A rollercoaster of events in a first cold/wet and later hot spring
If I were to describe spring 2023 in Bruinisse in one sentence it would be "a first cold/wet and later hot spring with a rollercoaster of events"😊☺️. With the highlight being hiking the West Highland Way in Scotland and the...
Fine winter is over 😃😎, or is it? 🥲
Fine, winter is over again 😃😎. Meteorologically yes, but unfortunately the weather is not showing that picture for the next week 🥲. We are looking forward to the warmer days of spring after this mostly humid winter. Not...
Reunited with our family in Bangkok and Cambodia 🇰🇭😊
We were reunited with our family in Bangkok and Cambodia for three weeks. A very special and valuable period. Asia is not the region where we will be vacationing together anytime soon (it's not so Toine's thing 😎), but...
Autumn in and sailing from Bruinisse
This winter we are staying in Bruinisse and so far we like it very much. It is nice and quiet with lots of space around us and the cars are nice and close. Throughout October the weather has been mild....
Summer in Bruinisse
August is not our favorite time in Bruinisse without having vacations ourselves. Many regular mooring holders are away and every day it is a wait and see which visiting boats come to moor there with the necessary crowds. Fortunately not flat...
Summer vacations 2022 - week in Solent and Netherlands
Our summer vacation is a little different than usual. We are guided by the daughters' plans and most decisive are the plans of Marinthe who is flying to Bangkok on Aug 5 for six months and the 3.5...
A week in London with Marinthe and Sam
Ever since Marinthe and Sam have been in a relationship, the plan has been to take a boat to London one day to visit Sam's parents and childhood home. But then again, when is a week...