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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

A quick update

It has been a while since I last posted. This is due to several reasons such as we set sail for the Azores and I have been too lazy to bother (lols). We reached the Azores about 10 days ago now and have been carrying out repairs and preparing the boat for the next leg of our journey across to the start point of our circumnavigation in Norway. We plan to over winter in the UK and then head out to Norway in the spring. Well, that's the plan but as we have found out the reality is usually slightly different to "the plan". 

We will be posting v-logs of our trip from Bermuda to the Azores which, even if I say so myself, had some wonderful highlights such as, a visit from a tiny bird, whale sightings, bird sightings and an encounter with about 50 dolphins. We did lose some of the footage due mostly to tiredness when down loading the footage en route but we saved enough for a good showing I think. I still have to view and log all the footage before I start cutting clips together and posting on you tube so that may not happen until we get to the UK. Unless the weather forces us to stay in the Azores longer than we have planned for.

One of the big things that I have learned about living on board the boat is that we have exchanged money for time. We no longer have any money but the most important thing we do have now is time. This is something that neither of us were really expecting, once you have worked on the most important maintenance issues on the boat you are then left with time. Time to sight see, explore and maybe more importantly time for each other. 
Anyway that's enough babbling for now, time (ha ha) for a couple of pictures.


For my 50th birthday, which happened in Bermuda, several things happened, Scrubby went away to work leaving me on the boat for 6 weeks.






I met and made a new best friend.



and Scrubby sent me one of my little sisters for my birthday.





Got to love a guy that after 27 years of marriage can still manage to surprise you **smiles**.

Have to go now and ride my bike to the local supermarket to pick up some groceries, keep well.

Nicky  =^-^=