S/V Aphrodite

Following  18.5 days at sea, we made landfall yesterday morning at St Lucia, the largest of the English speaking Windward Islands, under blue skies whilst flying the spinnaker.  The last several  days of the trip we got to experience the trade winds that we had expected to have had all the way - I certainly [...]

We made landfall in Cascais, Portugal near Lisbon yesterday evening.  The sun was still shinning at 10 in the evening and the port looked beautiful.  We celebrated our crossing with a bottle of reserve Azorean red wine given to us by Pierre who stayed with us several days in San Miguel, Azores.  It was delicious, thanks Pierre!  Our crossing took 5.5 days, [...]

We have stayed here for much longer than we expected. The streets which were foreign to us just a few weeks ago now feel like home and strangers like family. Our experiences here are ones we are not likely to forget.This is a great story, one which is characteristic of how we live now and [...]