After long night sails we struggle to find a suitable anchorage which isn't either 25 metres deep or total rock, then whilst checking out a little cove just ...
What a crazy start to our sailing season! An Emergency Hospital Admission is always scary, but when you're in a foreign country and its one of your babies its ...
We are back on our beloved catamaran Pickle, so glad the winters over and we have started our new season with an amazing road trip (see last episode 112) Now ...
Wow what a road trip! We have a fabulous and fantastic road trip back to Pickle! Stopping at Florence, Rome, Pisa, Naples, Pompeii, Mount Vesuvius, and so many ...
Your be glad to know we're be back on Pickle and sailing again in just a few weeks!! This episode our new puppy Buddy joins the family and we begin our ...
This episode is a longer time frame than usual! We winterise Pickle and leave her safely berthed at our winter marina while we fly back to the UK for ...
We are settling into our little winter marina, but as usual its no stop for the Pickle Crew! We have loads of boat jobs to do to get Pickle ready for winter ...
Wow that was close! After a week of running from this storm, we make it into our Winter Marina in Italy and the next day it hits, I'm so relieved I really felt ...
Squeezing in every last minute of sailing, into the ever shortening daylight winter hours is this weeks task! We have a major storm brewing and the nasty ...
After running from the Flash Floods we find debris strewn water continually along the northern coast of Sicily as we try and sail on to escape the crazy shit ...
This is one of my favourite episodes yet! So much happened in such a short amount of time! After a shocking sail from Bizerte, Tunisia to Sicily we was hoping ...
We finally leave Tunisia and sail to Sicily! Super exciting and a fantastic start but it soon changes when strong winds come unexpectedly and big seas build to ...
Wow what a crazy couple of weeks we've had exploring Tunisia, from the North to the Sahara and Deep South! This episode we start to make our way north again, ...
We left our sail boat and spent a week in the Sahara! Its been awesome, but we are definitely ready for our trek out of the desert back to civilisation! We ...
It really is strange being so deep into the Sahara desert when you live full time on a boat! It's completely different from the very watery existence we are ...
WOW what an exciting few days! After traveling hundreds of miles in a squashed up car across Tunisia, in North Africa, we finally reach Douz and the gateway to ...
What a great start to our adventures into the Sahara! We finally get a nice hire car, we do some crazy driving on the crazy Tunisian roads, pick up Beau's big ...
Its Beau's 13th birthday! We have a teenager on the boat!!! She enjoys a fun day with lots of pressies, her favourite yummy foods and a massive cake... what ...
Its been a crazy few days! With all these secret celebrations and surprises we are planning for Beaus 13th birthday, it really is a busy few days trying to ...
Typical type of week in a marina! We had some crazy winds, thunderstorms and heavy rain, then glorious sunshine, this North African weather is nothing short of ...
This weeks been busy, we get into further negotiations with the marina over pricing for our berth in Bizerte, we go hunting for cool birthday presents for ...
After lots of scrubbing, and using our nifty biodegradable acid, Pickle's looking sparkly and clean and it's time to do some more exploring in Bizerte. Tunisia ...
Wow what a brilliant experience! We had so much fun this week, visiting the best fish market in Tunisia then getting a well needed lesson no how to gut and ...
What a great week! We explore Old Town in Bizerte and try not to get lost in the tiny winding streets inside those huge old walls! We make a cool new local ...