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...