After an extremely poop week with crappy boatyard work, we have sailed on leaving Beautiful Italy behind and having a busy, windy sail over to Sicily. Sadly our boat work is failing already as we had feared would happen, but we don't let that stop us going...
We are stuck in this Italian boat yard in Crotone for 3 weeks!!! it was meant to be 10 days to get the repairs done, for all those scratches and cracks caused from the big boat which dragged onto us last year! Every job which we were promised was delayed a...
Busy week as ever! We get the last couple of essential jobs done before night sailing to another part of Italy so we can get Pickle lifted out the water to repair the damage from the crash last year in Turkey! But as ever we have a minor engine problem, as...
As usual we are in a Pickle, we have all sorts to sort out in the Uk and then head back to our boat Pickle, travelling across Europe again, enjoying the beautiful scenery and stopping off at Verona for a once in a life time peek at Juliets balcony, (as Bea...
We travel back to the UK from Pickle after getting her all snug and winterised in our winter marina in Italy. Then we embark on a crazy trip to the Isles of Scilly, which involves train journeys, a the night riviera sleeper train, buses, planes, taxis and ...
Winterising jobs are top priority this week! We made it to our winter marina and start to do the hundreds of jobs to ready Pickle for the winter when Chris has to leave, the car has broken down and the Italian garage is useless so we end up doing some craz...
After last weeks episode where we get our quotes for repairs and have a knees up, we are finally ready to leave Crotone, in the dark, sailing onto Roccella along the boot of Italy. We have a final amazing sunrise at sea get ourselves in some heavy weather ...
Well yet again we're in a Pickle! After the last months constant storm sailing we finally had engine failure in last weeks episode, Thankfully engine stripping and rebuilds is becoming something we're quite good at! So this week guys Chris is yet again pul...
We're doing it guys!! We're just bloody well doing it! There is no two day window to cross from Greece to Italy so we have to just go for it, we leave in one storm and arrive in another, throw in engine failure at the end and you get the jist of this mad, ...
We have a very needed break in these crazy weeks of storms! We discover the gorgeous calm surroundings and explore for miles on white sandy beaches, then manage to sail on along the Greek coast and cross to Kefalonia in huge swell, where we take shelter fo...
We leave one anchorage to have a pretty great sail compared to a lot these last few weeks! Arriving in time to avoid the strong winds which were coming! Predicted a Beaufort 9 for 2/3 days straight! We take shelter in beautiful bay which has a lot of shel...
It's all about the sailing this week guys!! After hiding out in a sheltered Military Naval bay away from some big storms, we finally set sail again, nervously passing through live firing grounds into open water and after a strong day sail find ourselves sa...
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