Two Questions
What now? That’s the first question (The second comes right at the bottom of this post) What now is a question we ask ourselves a lot isn’t it? Usually it’s asked when a succession of bad...
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Zen & The Art Of Boat Building
As I ease into the second of the fifteen months I’ve set aside for ‘work’ I’m entering a dip. You know what I’m talking about right? You’ve had them too. One of my ‘mentors’ Seth Godin...
Floating In Time
e’re floating in time and history here on the Rio Guadiana. 3000 years of history and time. Phoenicians from the Eastern Mediterranean sailed up here 1000 years before Christ. Romans, Visigoths and Moors have lived, worked...
What’s The Point?
That’s the question that’s been running through my head for the past week now. What’s the point of cruising on a sailboat? Does there even need to be one? I blame the Guadiana. It’s this place...
Feliz Ano Novo
Happy New Year everyone, eyes down for a brand new year of fun and foolishness. Gail and I had a quiet celebration of what, for us, has been an incredible 2015. We walked down to the...
No More Crusades
oday I was going to write another ‘normal’ blog post. I’d have talked about the weather, I’d have talked about Portugal, I’d probably have whinged about something…. again. But today it’s becoming apparent that France is...
Deck Party :)
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve spent some pleasant evenings aboard other boats anchored here, enjoying good conversation over a few glasses of vinho cheapado. Although the weather has been very pleasant here the winds...
On Weather
At the risk of falling into old habits I’m going to talk about the weather. I’ll attempt to avoid concentrating on the negative aspects and complaining but at the same time the current meterological situation isn’t...
The Secret To Success
Well here we are, the last day of the year twenty fourteen and what a year it’s been, here are the Cliffs notes; Finished building Gleda Moved out of our rented cottage for good Transported...
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