Final farewells and ready to go, just waiting on the weather… — It’s a familiar feeling creeping up. The obsession with checking the weather forecast every 5 minutes even though you KNOW they only update the models twice a day. Perhaps if you look more carefully or route a different way you’ll find some hidden clue? But what different way is there…

Goodbye to Rada the Lada, starting to make our farewells and Matilda is looking ship shape and shiny — It was with optimism we set off Sunday morning from Skopje, North Macedonia. Rada had behaved well to date and another four hours would see us in Sofia, Bulgaria. …

Work work… and then four countries in one day! — Woah! This week has absolutely flown by. There’s not a lot to say other than we’ve been more or less keeping our nose to the grindstone trying to complete all the jobs in order to get ready for the season. We didn’t quite get to the polishing, but it’s imminent! …

Chur to Como then back to Matilda at Porto Montenegro and a lot of work — with some fun too! — I always know when we’ve been bouncing around and up to too much because I have to start these weekly reflections by going back to last weeks entry to work out where we were! Like really? We were in Chur only 7 days ago! It feels like a month… Chur…

Trains, planes and birthdays baby! We explore Milan, mistake a shopping center for the Duomo, Karina has a birthday and we eat more Asian food than you’d think. — If you’ve been following for a while you might have realized that Karina and I don’t really plan ahead that much. We have a loose set of thoughts on things that we’d like to achieve and a propensity to leap into action when the opportunity arises. …

Hurry up and wait, Spring is not quite here yet! — I don’t think there’s been a day this week where the conversation hasn’t turned to “Where are you heading when you leave?”, “When are you leaving?” or “I can’t wait to get going!” All of the liveaboards I talk to seem to be of a similar mindset. Living here in…

You can tell with the splutter of an old diesel engine and the hammering and banging on the docks, Spring is here. — Sunday was a typical Balkans type experience. Amazing scenery and amazing bureaucracy! We started our day driving back towards Montenegro from Ploče, Croatia where we came across Ston — another medieval town with very intact walls. …

It’s a lovely place to grow cabbages and to go chasing waterfalls… travelling through Croatia — One of the lessons this week has been just how cultural travel really is. And I don’t mean the culture you’re exposed to. The destinations and places you choose to travel to are also driven by culture.

Exploring Bosnia & Herzegovina — It’s hard to capture just how amazing we’ve found Bosnia & Herzegovina (I’ll use the local abbreviation of BiH from here) to be. It’s such a dramatic country. Dramatic landscapes, dramatic history, dramatic architecture… it’s just all around dramatic.