2023 – Europe
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Pool time and dinner al fresco
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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 breakfast
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Truffle Hunters-R-Us
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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
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Onward to Istria
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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
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One last night aboard the Cool Change
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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
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Fruit straight from the tree
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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
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How far to Hvar
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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
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Waited on by The Red King
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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
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Happily bouncing from cove to cove
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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
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Rescue on the high seas
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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
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On the boat at last!
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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