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noforeignland

New Blog Post Incase you didn't know, we are on noforeignland. It's a great way to keep track of where we are

As of January 31st we setup noforeignland, if you have been following our journey & haven’t looked us up on there, be sure to have look. The map of our journey is quite cool to watch develop. noforeignland is actually pretty cool. We use it to track not only our journey, but it’s a great way to follow other boats too & keep in touch with the people that you meet along the way. We have already…

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Les Saintes

New Blog Post The start of our time in Guadeloupe, starting in the islands of Les Saintes

The passage from Dominica to Guadeloupe was one of the smoothest that we might ever have. The water was so glassy & there was very little wind so we just motored across from Mero Beach (Dominica) to Terre-de-Haut, Les Saintes (Guadeloupe). With the water so calm & enough solar, we were able to run the watermaker whilst underway 🎉. It made getting a call to do some work at the last minute, a much…

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Dominica Round up

NEW Blog Post 3rd & final post about Dominica

We had a days recovery, after all the excitement & then decided to make the move up the coast to Mero Beach to meet up with Kim, Cath & Dom on SV Breizh Fenua, who were anchored there.It took us close to an hour to untangle from our mooring ball at Roseau, which was somewhat hilarious. We ended up staying in Roseau for 6 nights which meant we had one wicked tangle in both the lines we had running…

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Dominica Part 2 - The Hospital

New Blog Post Geoff's visit to hospital in January was a little unexpected, definitely memorable though. See link or bio for link to site to read about our experiences at the Dominica - China Friendship Hospital

Our adventures in the Roseau area were not to finish with simply a tour of the area & meeting & making new friends from Montreal, (whilst we all waited for a small marine shop in Roseau to open). Just as we thought that we were ready to move on, other plans were a foot, that we were unaware of.On the 25th of January, Geoff woke up early in extreme pain. There was a hope that whatever was going on…

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Dominica Part 1

Some of the highlights of our time in Dominica (Part 1)

From the very start, our time in Dominica (NOT Dominican Republic just to be clear) was memorable. Martinique to Dominica was our first passage on our boat & it would also be the first time we broke out the sails properly. We used the head sail (genoa) before, but never the main, because we didn’t have to. We paid attention to the other boats around us & felt good about our decision to have a…

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Reflections of Martinique

Martinique will always feel like a home base on this journey. We spent a lot of time there, a great deal of it albeit was at the dock in Le Marin & due heavily to medical issues, but during our time there, we got to know some amazing people. Many lived there, but there were fellow cruisers like Pam & Kim from Canada that we met on Kemana & the other Canadians on a Cat called eSKape, that we hope…

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Some bumps...

The start of the journey with a few bumps along the way...

Well, the trip has been interesting so far, it has taken me a while to recap, but I am slowly getting there.Our journey to move onto the boat started at the start of November, with Geoff & Emily arriving to start the process, whilst Levi & I sorted out stuff in Canada. Staggering our arrival times by a couple of weeks, worked out quite well as Levi & I brought a lot of stuff that was…

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Tammy

Last week was fun, we went from watching a tropical depression build, hoping that it might magically disappear (we all need some delusion/ optimism in life). To reality hitting, as it was officially called a Tropical Storm & given a name, Tammy. Not long after that, it moved up the ranks to a Hurricane status in some areas. She was not playing it cool it seemed.Tammy held our interest more than…

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October

New Blog Post The days are flying past, but progress is happening. October is super crazy for us, here is a quick update.

Ahh October, the craziness has well & truly begun!!With Geoff finishing work at the end of September, it has brought about some sanity in-house. Emphasis on some, lets not give any illusions that we are all suddenly 100% sane in our house.😂October is typically crazy for us, with family birthday celebrations, Canadian Thanksgiving, a wedding anniversary & halloween. At the end of it, we (as in the…

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Electric V's Propane

Blog Post Propane v's Electric Some reasons why we have made the choice to switch to electric & the process to date to do so

Before we got Can Knot Agree (CKA) in 2021, we did some research into galley options to think about a course of action we wanted to follow once we had our own boat & soon decided that we wanted to go electric & would likely remove the propane. We didn’t get to the point of full removal of all propane items on CKA, but we did manage not to use any of those items & learn a lot though the…

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Natural Fibres

New Blog Post: We try to reduce our plastic waste & consumption in many ways, here is why we do & some areas that we have looked into.

Something that I am really passionate about, besides finding ways to include some of my warped sense of humour into a conversation, is the environment.I truly believe that we all have an impact on the world by the decisions we make in life. Every little choice has an effect in some way, maybe it isn’t noticed immediately, but over time it adds up. When you consider that there are over 8 billion…

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Social Media Updates

Another form of social media to keep abreast of our (mis)adventures & warped sense of humour....

After much procrastination, and a push from a few people, we finally decided to start a Facebook page to share our adventures via, to compliment Instagram & blog posts here on our website. Covid, as crappy as it was, really did give us the push that we needed to get on with things & since then we have been working pretty hard to try to get all our ducks in a row to make things happen. Very…

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Recap of our travels

We have been back for almost 5 months now. Our European trip was amazing & encouraged us to continue with our plan to travel some more. Travelling for the time that we did & the manner in which we did, was a bit of a test as to how to manage travelling longer term with two kids in tow. Both G & I have backpacked for months at a time, but travelling with kids requires a little more thought.For…

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Istanbul

A summary of our experiences in Istanbul

Istanbul was an interesting place to visit. If you need to get a tourist visa in your passport on arrival, note that you cannot do so with the border agents, there are little visa booths on either side of the massive passport control areas, so if you arrive at 2am like we did, be prepared that you might have to walk a good 500+m in the opposite direction to get your visa, if you happen to walk to…

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Neuschwanstein Castle

Our journey to Neuschwanstein Castle

I freely admit that sometimes our “research” into places that we want to go & see & how to get there can be a bit half assed at times, but our trip to Neuschwanstein was especially memorable.We looked into getting a hire car, but it was going to be a min of €250 just to hire a small car for the day, plus petrol etc, so we returned to the idea of catching public transport, neither one of us wanted…

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Livin' Life

Enjoy life, take chances!

This trip has been amazing so far!Whilst there is some juggling with working, travelling, and worldschooling the kids at the same time, and general day to day living that comes with this life, it has been such an amazing experience so far. We have always had trouble staying still for any length of time & having to sit still with covid was hard (first world problems). I am so glad that we can…

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Musings on settling in, in Wrocław

A post early on, about settling in, in Wrocław

It didn’t take long for us to settle in, I figured it would be about a week or so & I was pretty much right. This doesn’t mean that we don’t still stick out, but I am ok with sticking out, I am not one of those people that seems to blend in much, in life & not knowing very much Polish does mean that you can’t blend in long here.Knowing how & where to get food is a big thing, especially as we like…