Nr 120. Monaco
It was time to sail into Monaco, officially called ‘Principality of Monaco’ which is a sovereign microstate on the French Riviera. It’s quite a special place. I made a picture of the whole country of Monaco, never before I got an entire country in 1 picture 😊. The more I read about Monaco, the more […]
Nr 119. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
Slow traveling is very applicable to sailing: you sail about 10 km per hour, about 50 km per day and then you are in a beautiful place for a few days to look around or you are in a beautiful bay. And slow traveling it certainly is on the Cote d’Azur this summer, because there […]
Nr 118. Concerts of The Weeknd and Nile Rodgers & CHIC
East to the Bay of Cannes, is the Golfe Juan. It is another great bay at the French Riviera where there are lots of nice villages and beautiful coastlines. We have visited Juan-les-Pins and Antibes. Water activities It is great to be at the Cote d’Azur during this summertime! A lot of water activities are […]
Nr 117. Cannes
We left the Bay of Saint-Tropez and sailed to Cannes. We have been in Cannes before, famous for the ‘Palais des Festivals et des Congrès’ where the Film Festival is held every May, but we experienced a few surprises there now that we would see it from the waterfront! CannesWe visited the city of Cannes, […]
Nr 116. Saint-Tropez
After a good time on the island of Porquerolles, we left the bay, heading for Saint-Tropez. We had a westerly wind, so the first part of the sailing trip was right on the back of the boat. For your sail handling, we set our mainsail out as much as possible so that it picks up […]
Nr 115. Islands of Hyères
I love islands! I was born on an island (Goeree-Overflakkee), when I was 18 I left the island to ‘the other side’ as they called it (the big city of Rotterdam) to study there and live there. But I never lost that feeling of how great is it to just be 5 minutes away from […]
Nr 114. Sustainable Sailing: 10 things we do
When you have lived for 2 years surrounded by nature like we have, living on the water in our catamaran, you get to know and appreciate nature more and more. In fact, you become impressed by the environment around you. You experience life on and under the water, and you also see how vulnerable it […]
113. Marseille & Calanques
After a good time in the Southwest region of France, called Occitanie, we left the port of Frontignan and sailed further east along the coast. The first area after Frontignan had a lot of lagunes and swamps with a few cities. like La Grande-Motte which is famous for the yearly multihull boatshow in April (which […]
112. Sailing Southwest France
And just like that, you sail into France from Spain! On water there is no mark that you have sailed into another country. On land you see signs next to the road, but on your boat it’s only your cellphone that gives away the fact that you entered a new country by pinging: ‘Welcome to […]
Nr 111. Salvador Dalí
Before we left to the USA for the 4-day conference in San Diego (see blog nr 110), we sailed the last part of Spain, the northeast coast called Costa Brava. I mentioned that we visited the house of famous painter Salvador Dalí there, close to Cadaqués. We also visited the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres and […]