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Karma Noodle (and thanks to Sharron)

When Sharron arrived on Deja Vu back in mid June, she had with her a ‘noodle’. Actually it was Peter who had painstakingly carried this said blue, semi flexible noodle in his luggage, which at a length of 1.5m and diameter of 70mm, was no mean feat. It sprung out of his luggage with muchContinue reading “Karma Noodle (and thanks to Sharron)”

Touring around Montenegro

Montenegro is a small, rugged and beautiful country. The country covers just less that 14,000 square kilometres, has 293 km of coastline, 70 mountain peaks 2000m above sea level. Made up mostly of hills and mountains, it is dramatic, unforgiving terrain that supports a population of about 600,000. In the north of Montenegro, the RiverContinue reading “Touring around Montenegro”

The coming and going of the beard

It all started one morning when the recent Christmas present Mo had given Nigel in the shape of a top of the range Remington razor, simply fell apart in Nigel’s hands, honest guv! It was early July and we were nowhere near shops that sold food let alone electric razors. With no back up wetContinue reading “The coming and going of the beard”

Crossing the Adriatic

Wednesday 24th July dawned bright and sunny with a good forecast of moderate North Westerly winds arising late morning and lasting overnight. We were up early preparing for the 120 mile passage from Bari in Italy to Bar in Montenegro, just dropping an ‘i’ in our destination. We left Italy soon after 9am. In spiteContinue reading “Crossing the Adriatic”

Naples

It was an early start for us on Monday 22nd July as we had to get a taxi to take us to the bus stop by the railway station to catch our bus to Napoli, due to leave at 9am. Fortunately we had bought our tickets the day before, a frustrating exercise that had takenContinue reading “Naples”

Bari

It might not have been one of our better decisions to leave Vieste on Wednesday 17th July to sail to another coastal town further south, but set off we did. The moderate northerly wind was no problem but the sea was still boiling from the strong winds of the previous few days and even gettingContinue reading “Bari”

East coast of Italy

Lastovo is one of the western most islands of Croatia and makes an attractive setting off point for Italy as the distance to cross to the tip of the peninsular jutting out from the east coast of Italy is only 60 miles, a manageable day sail. Fun and games as usual to clear customs outContinue reading “East coast of Italy”

Korcula & Lastovo

We had been planning to go to Vis but the wind dictated our direction and we ended up in Vela Luka on the eastern end of Korcula. We were pleased to note that the dusty work in progress on road construction that we encountered last year, was now complete and we enjoyed our visit hereContinue reading “Korcula & Lastovo”

Getting to Vrboska on Hvar

Tuesday 2nd July, we left Split well after midday hoping for the afternoon sea breeze to blow us to the island of Brac. The westerly wind finally obliged at 2pm and we went from no wind to 20knots in just a few minutes in true Croatian style. A fast sail took us past Milna onContinue reading “Getting to Vrboska on Hvar”

San Giorgio to Split

Thursday 20th June, our first stop to clear immigration into Croatia was at Novigrad where we admired the old church and sampled some Croatian beer. On our way in we suffered complete instrument failure which was worrying. Nigel even had to resort to reading the manual to identify that the main fuse had decidedContinue reading “San Giorgio to Split”