ENGLAND – FAREWELL!! 1st September 2007
We are now in Falmouth – where we made landfall some 10 months ago in October last year! We arrived here a couple of days ago after spending 4/5 days travelling from Cowes, Isle of Wight via Port Portland and Salcombe.
As we said in our last update we experienced delays with our maintenance mode and when we were ready to leave from Cowes about 2 weeks ago the weather wasn’t favourable! Finally the weather pattern to head South is looking great for our journey towards Portugal and Spain and particularly past the dreaded (we will let you know) Bay of Biscay!!
However not all was doom and gloom during our 10 days in Cowes as we caught up with Jessica Schroder (met during Cowes Regatta week) once again on her yacht and was lucky to get an invite from one of her friends, Mark Heywood, for drinks at the Royal Yacht Squadron which was quite a treat and a step back in history of the centre of sailing!!
We also had a visit from our nephew Daryl and his lovely wife Adrienne (from Sydney) who came down from London to spend the night with us! During our time in London it has been great to have a member of our family resident in London and we spent many fun Wednesday nights having ‘family’ dinners together! Despite their much younger years we enjoyed spending time with them both and getting to know them – we will miss their company!
We have had a neat few days since we arrived in Falmouth! Some special visitors; my sister Melva and her husband Brian (from Christchurch) who arrived in the UK a week or so ago. We will meet them again on the Amalfi Coast Italy, with a bit of luck. Also our friend Graham Waring from Essex arrived on Thursday for the night to bid us farewell – how special for us in both instances!
Our last night in England we were the guests of a fun couple Tony and Helen from Plymouth on their motor boat, moored in the same marina. We enjoyed some great wine and local seafood - superb!!
So finally today is the day- we bid fond farewell to England and to all our friends – old and new, who made our rather long stay so ‘special’! We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and hope to see you all some time as we continue our journey towards the Mediterranean.
Once again our UK cell number will continue to be our phone contact +447787793398 and of course text as well. However we will not have a message system on our phone! Our normal email is alphacrucis@110pct.com which we will check when we are close to land!
At this point it will depend on time and weather, whether we stop in Portugal or Spain. We may very well keep going, however our dear friend and confidant, Murray Aldridge, will be back updating the blog every 2/3 days, from his desk in Auckland, so you will be able to keep track of where we are and how we are going!
We are looking forward to experiencing some nice warm weather in the Med.
We have friends and family who are meeting us in the Amalfi Coast later this month so hopefully all going well we will arrive before they do!!
Lots of Love
The Jolly Rogers
We are now in Falmouth – where we made landfall some 10 months ago in October last year! We arrived here a couple of days ago after spending 4/5 days travelling from Cowes, Isle of Wight via Port Portland and Salcombe.
As we said in our last update we experienced delays with our maintenance mode and when we were ready to leave from Cowes about 2 weeks ago the weather wasn’t favourable! Finally the weather pattern to head South is looking great for our journey towards Portugal and Spain and particularly past the dreaded (we will let you know) Bay of Biscay!!
However not all was doom and gloom during our 10 days in Cowes as we caught up with Jessica Schroder (met during Cowes Regatta week) once again on her yacht and was lucky to get an invite from one of her friends, Mark Heywood, for drinks at the Royal Yacht Squadron which was quite a treat and a step back in history of the centre of sailing!!
We also had a visit from our nephew Daryl and his lovely wife Adrienne (from Sydney) who came down from London to spend the night with us! During our time in London it has been great to have a member of our family resident in London and we spent many fun Wednesday nights having ‘family’ dinners together! Despite their much younger years we enjoyed spending time with them both and getting to know them – we will miss their company!
We have had a neat few days since we arrived in Falmouth! Some special visitors; my sister Melva and her husband Brian (from Christchurch) who arrived in the UK a week or so ago. We will meet them again on the Amalfi Coast Italy, with a bit of luck. Also our friend Graham Waring from Essex arrived on Thursday for the night to bid us farewell – how special for us in both instances!
Our last night in England we were the guests of a fun couple Tony and Helen from Plymouth on their motor boat, moored in the same marina. We enjoyed some great wine and local seafood - superb!!
So finally today is the day- we bid fond farewell to England and to all our friends – old and new, who made our rather long stay so ‘special’! We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and hope to see you all some time as we continue our journey towards the Mediterranean.
Once again our UK cell number will continue to be our phone contact +447787793398 and of course text as well. However we will not have a message system on our phone! Our normal email is alphacrucis@110pct.com which we will check when we are close to land!
At this point it will depend on time and weather, whether we stop in Portugal or Spain. We may very well keep going, however our dear friend and confidant, Murray Aldridge, will be back updating the blog every 2/3 days, from his desk in Auckland, so you will be able to keep track of where we are and how we are going!
We are looking forward to experiencing some nice warm weather in the Med.
We have friends and family who are meeting us in the Amalfi Coast later this month so hopefully all going well we will arrive before they do!!
Lots of Love
The Jolly Rogers
posted by Alpha Crucis at 3:15 AM
1 Comments:
Bon voyage guys have a great trip. Will txt to catch up.
What a wonderful UK excursion
Keep on keeping on
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