Storms, salt and submarines — This week has been full of big storms and lots of rain. Which of course is a problem as the leak is STILL not fixed. I’m genuinely at a loss as to where the water is coming from now, back to the drawing board. With our storm prep completed, there…

In which nothing much happens… — A typical Montenegrin week with mostly wonderful weather but terrible when it’s not. We’ve been continuing to recover from our colds and a few social events. Monday it was raining buckets so you think we’d stay on board, but instead we drove over to Herceg Novi to visit Mark and…

“Wild swimming” on New Years Day, fortresses, resting up and enjoying the weather — A few years into this new lifestyle and I’m beginning to see how life has broken into several distinct seasons now. There’s the obvious Cruising Season when we’re out and about travelling with Matilda, exploring new destinations day by day. This runs from May to October. …

Holiday adventures in Norway, misplaced baggage, Rada gets some TLC and back to Matilda. — Despite some adventures with luggage we had a wonderful time in Norway with Ella, Inge and Inge’s family. The whole experience was everything we hoped it might be and more. Rather than bore everyone with the tale of misplaced luggage, which seems to be an all too familiar problem these…

We break a couple more things, but are overall on the mend and off to Athens. — Unfortunately the answer to “What else can we break?” turned out to be me! I slipped on a ramp in the marina and ended up landing directly on my backside, winding myself and bruising my back. …

What else can we break? — The theme of this week seems to be things breaking down and trying to get them fixed, whether that’s Matilda the boat, Rada the Lada or even Rosie the Dog (all OK, no need to panic…). …

Meet Rada the Lada… a trip to Sofia for me and a quiet week on the boat for Karina — Driving back from Sofia alone was interesting. When I came back with Karina a few weeks ago we noticed women standing alone on the side of the road, typically where there were lots of trucks passing through or slower traffic. We weren’t sure but concluded they were most likely prostitutes. …

Exploring Dubrovnik and Lovćen — The first few days of this week were a continuing education in why Montenegro has a reputation as one of the wettest countries in Europe. We huddled inside and waited it out, venturing out briefly to walk Rosie who frankly wasn’t interested.