Author Archives: Christine

The last official leg of our trip went to White Bay on Jost van Dyke which houses the famous «Soggy Dollar Bar», where you swim ashore with dollars tucked into your bikini to buy drinks, especially known for their frozen (prescription-free) Painkillers! Several bars spread out along the coral white strech of sandy beach, MillieContinue reading “Endings and new beginnings..”

Last day on Anegada we spent the whole day at ABC (Anegada beach Club)with the children a good 5 hr continous poolswim, ginger beer on the rocks, carib with lime,ABCs famous BLLT(bacon lobster lettuce tomato) sandwich. ( this being after the morning SUP in the mangroves). We managed to go by the food store LilContinue reading “Taking in all we can the last few days..”

Leaving Gorda sound in the morning after a morning run in the velvet morning heat, passing Necker Island once again, this time on our Starboard side. With nice winds we got both the genoa and the Main sail up and with Cornelia at the wheel we made 7,5knt and scooted along with flyfish jumping outContinue reading “Drowned Island – Anegada”

Injured toes seem to be the theme of our holiday! First out was Cornelia the very first day, even before we reached BVI, stumping her big toe to bleeding alongside the main road of St Martin. The next was Erik to break his metatarsal or toe on his birthday- two radiologists without a portable xrayContinue reading “Gin for antiseptics, broken birthdayboy toes and Saba rock – with Lady Gaga (we think) on the beach to top it all off!”

After a nice long morning lay-down on Cooper Island beach with coldbrewed ice coffees and some quality reading/free wifi-time, we turned our boats nose toward Virgin Gorda (the fat Virgin, named after the shape of the Island). Nice head winds so we got up both the Genoa and the main sail, and got the feelingContinue reading “Mayday mayday”

Early morning coffee and a bath in bathtub temp deep blue waters -little by little the full set of two families awaken. The next leg of the route is planned by the two captains and the crew gets ready for liftoff from the mooring- heading off to the Indians and Pelican Island for some snorkelingContinue reading “New adventures ahead”

Oftentimes a picture says a thousand times more than words-magical blue skies, sleepy exited happy faces having breakfast in a mild breeze outside in the local marina breakfast coffeeshop. After a full English/caribbean breakfast with all we could want and need at a local coffeeshop at Sopers Home, our preparation for setting sail was setContinue reading “SERENDIPIDY”

With grandfathers taking each the fam’s to the airport at 3.30am in the morning the journeys start was smooth. Carrying only handluggage we whisked through ticketbooths, tax free and onto the plane. First headed for schipol, Amsterdam and then an 8hour flight to St Martin. Stepping off the plane in St Martin with the silkyContinue reading “The 24 hour haul with “handluggage” and multiple Covid-19 documentations along the way…”

The doors of the world were shut so abruptly two years ago, and our travels ended – but now another window opened and we are extremely fortunate to be able to complete our journey! We left our dreams in Costa Rica 2020, before we were able to head down sailing in the Caribbean as wasContinue reading “And then, just like that, we were able to continue and complete our life adventure…”

Climb every mountain: Mama found a jungle house up in the hills of Uvita – Morpheo eco retreat, definitely a place to visit! The house was just as amazing as it seems, but the drive up (and down) were nerve-racking – but that was only until we (Erik) really mastered the joys of locking theContinue reading ““We thought we were just having fun, but it turns out we created memories..””