2023 – Europe
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Pool time and dinner al fresco
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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