WELCOME TO FARNSNIENTE

We’re up at six, even before the alarm. We’re thinking “Miss the alarm and maybe miss our flight?” so we had multiple alarms set. We close t

Today is our last full day in Europe, tomorrow we fly back to Austin. We feel we have to make the most of the day so we’re up early, at 6 am

This morning Karen and I are on our own, for a while anyways. Karen’s arranged for all six of us to go up to the top of the Eiffel Tower, wh

Today should be a busy, exciting day. For many, that is, but not so much for me. During our trip planning, for this last Paris visit, Karen

When we wake Karen feels a little better. Is it the meds? A good night’s sleep? Or the fact that today we fly back to Paris? She feels good

When we wake Karen is certain she has a bad cold. She’s coughing like crazy. For our Asia trip we brought DayQuill, NyQuill, Decongestant, C

Of late, each day we wake we look outside hopefully, looking for something other than clouds and rain. Once again, we’re disappointed. Break

When we wake we see rain out the window. It’s so green and beautiful around here, we guess it’s inevitable. But we’re driving a fair bit of

We meet for breakfast at a reasonable hour. The meal is included in our room rate. The spread is impressive with lots of local products. We

We wake and enjoy one last morning at the villa. The weather is beautiful and we take all the same pictures again. After breakfast we pack a

Today we’re waking and going to bed in the same place. A nice change. We are doing a bit of driving to check out a local town. After breakfa

We awake and for the first time in a week we don’t have a gourmet chef making us a big yummy breakfast. Well this sucks. Not really. It’s fi

We wake knowing today’s the day we head to shore and say bye to the Cool Change catamaran and Captain Jure and Chef Matko. We have one last

After our big night we wake up late. We have bright sunshine and blue sky, much to our delight. I feel better but am always cautious after a

As always we wake, have coffee, and eat a big breakfast. Jure reattaches the launch back onto big boat and then lashes the paddle boards in

Not much scheduled for today. We’re supposed to take our longest sail/motor of the trip. We’ll end up just across from the popular Croatian

It may get harder and harder to write these entries. Our daily activities seem to be getting repetitive. We get up, have coffee, swim, have

I get up late and others are already up, enjoying coffee. There’s no schedule here ‘in the islands’. The coffee maker is just ‘push a button

I wake at 6:30. It’s our first morning on the boat. Ted’s already up and thankfully has a fancy coffee/espresso maker similar to this one on

Finally today’s the day we board the boat, if all goes according to plan. We wake. The city, Split, is quiet. After the raucous late evening