This isn't our usual episode, but we've been asked so many times from subscribers and now also patrons, so here it is... our teeny tiny floaty boaty! We love Pickle, we hope you do too! She may be small, but has everything we need and more importantly ever...
After lots of thunderstorms, fixing boat leaks and general boat life chores I think we deserved a bit of fun! We all went to ride some lovely Spanish horses in beautiful rural locations and galloped along deserted beaches...sound good!? It really was, at l...
After months of sadness over loosing our Salty Sea dog Boza, it was a pleasure to have a Gorgeous little puppy dog on board! Even if it was only for one night. And it was a great distraction from editing, boat jobs and trying to fix up the Spanish car! Joi...
Another great fun few weeks working on Pickle. The jobs always seem never ending, but we have so much fun and learn new stuff everyday! This week we remove our Genoa (head sail) and give it a big clean before it heads off to the sail makers for a new UV st...
Every day is special when you live on a boat, but this episode has lots of great snippets from our daily lives, we've been hiking, sailing different anchorages and exploring all the local coastline as well as spending time with great friends and celebratin...
Hope you enjoy this episode as we explore the Beautiful rugged, quiet and rural coast line near Cabo De Gata in Spain. We go for big treks, wonderful snorkelling with masses of sea life and some great sails, coast in to San Jose on 35 knots and sit out 45 ...
After a nice but tiring long sail back from Melilla In Morocco, Africa we are thoroughly enjoy the change of scenery and tranquility. Trekking hill tops, finding geckos and practicing my karate kid moves is just part of good old boat life. Jump abroad and ...
We have an exhilarating start to our sail back across the Mediterranean sea, strong winds and big swells make life lots of fun and rather bumpy. It's not long though and we can shake the reefed sails out as the winds lighten and enjoy the biggest pod of do...
We have a fabulous day sailing the local Melilla coast line, enjoying the peace and quiet and sunshine of beautiful Morocco. Then one evening we have another visit from the Guardia...this is becoming a habit ;-) they escort us into the Marina and we have t...
After strong winds and a swelly day at anchor we have a stolen tender and quite an exciting few days! We catch a baby barracuda, make yummy boat bread, have a wonderful sail to a stunning little cove, where we can chill out in the beautiful Moroccan sunshi...
We have so much fun this episode! We explore Old Town, New Town, hidden little fortifications and enjoy beautiful restaurants. After finding the elusive and stunning cove, we get more than we bargain for when we order local fish of the day!
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We are free... Sailing the beautiful Mediterranean Sea! After weeks of work and turmoil we finally drop our lines, lose sight of land and sail our way across to Melilla, in Morocco.
About a third of the way across as night fell, we become aware of a very ...
I can't quite believe it we have finally finished the major boat jobs...We're going sailing!!!
After a lovely night at anchor and some serious scrubbing of antifoul, we have a bit of fun with friends then head off to Northern Africa. Morocco was calling, ...
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Sorry for the long one folks! This episode sees us stripping down the Windlass and going through the arduous process of a rebuild, it isn't completely foobarred but its quite a mission to find the right parts and get it rebuilt and back on deck! So glad we...
The lovely new batteries finally turn up, so we do a full battery installation and also upgrade our alternator, pulley's and belts to match the power. It all takes quite a bit of programming and general messing about! We are itching to go sailing but we ke...
Well you'll love this one! We finally solve our on going problem with our solar panels, which has blighted us for to long to admit! And as usual Nicky's Naked! She's skinny dipping and swimming naked and then I catch her, bum out up the back frame and stic...
This episode we have to move our little home from the Marina to moor along side a fishing boat wall! We couldn't get the marina to agree to us being lifted out for long enough to do all the windows, the pontoons were all to high and we can't reach from a d...
So we have finally put this old Spanish car to some good use and went off for the day trekking across the beautiful Tabernas mountains and desert . We visited the stunning Cabo de Gata National Park, Lighthouse, secret hidden coves and the cute and tiny v...
This episode was extremely hard to make, there is lots of boat jobs to get on with and we are as busy as always but its been a tough few weeks, I keep my chin up and positive for my family but my sadness over losing Boza is like a black whole in the pit of...
We risked everything to get back to our beloved Pickle! We travelled 1000's of kms and scorching temperatures in a old banged out Spainish car, but it was so worth it, and it feels amazing to finally be back! Its the height of Summer and it takes a few day...
It has been FOREVER!!! We have been in lockdown and locked OUT of Spain for mouths now, so the weekend the borders reopen we make a dash for it! We pack up catch a ferry quick sharpish then travel across france and Spain to reach our beloved Pickle, we hav...
After travelling back to the UK and having lots of fun at Christmas with family and friends we are extremely delayed because of Beaus eye problem, mri and further tests, so sadly and very annoyingly we get locked down in England due to the crazy pandemic! ...
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