Saturday, July 16, 2016

UK Bound....

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I'm sure you've all heard the events of the past few weeks but in no particular order, Portugal won the UEFA Euro 16, Australia finally elected a new Prime Minister, there have been various attacks all across Europe, and the UK decided to leave the EU.

Without underselling the other events, the UK's exit vote has caused considerable uncertainty within the UK and has effectively caused us to rethink our travel plans. Will the GBP rebound as a strong currency? Will UK passport holders still be able [.....]

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Monday, June 13, 2016

Progress? Well, not really.

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Another month in 2016 ticks by and not a lot of progress really... we're still waiting on good weather to get Calypso back to the UK / on the market, and the catamaran that we were interested in has been removed from the market for the time being. The cat owner has invited us down to Portugal though to test sail her at some point, then we can start the discussions on when we can take ownership....

What else... not a lot really. I forgot how much it rains in the summer in the UK (a lot), work is ticking along nicely and putting ££ back in the cruising kitty, and I'm keeping myself amused with motorbikes [.....]

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Wednesday, May 04, 2016

Has it really been a month since my last update?

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Geez.... how time flies. A month ago, we were still job hunting, still catamaran hunting, and still freezing our butts off in one of the latest UK winters for a long time.

Skip forward to early May - Lauren and I are both back at work, we've pretty much settled on a catamaran, and the weather is *finally* warming up. There's even talk of 26C this weekend. Crazy, I know.

I won't go into the work side of things too much, but needless to say we're back on track for setting off again in the not-too-distant future.

As for the catamaran, we decided to give that utterly annoying broker one last chance. We made a [.....]

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Saturday, April 02, 2016

Update!

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Hey folks,

So it's been six weeks since I wrote last.... and boy a lot's changed. Here's a brief update.

We first up thought we'd only be coming back for the summer, so left Calypso in a ready-to-go state for our Atlantic crossing later this year. Well, one thing led to another and a seed of thought that's slowly been growing in my mind really took hold one rainy London evening, as I sat surfing the night. Maybe now was a great time to change to [.....]

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