Flying Fish Life
Exploring the world on a Leopard 44 catamaran
Category: Side Trips
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August 2024
Escaping the Mediterranean heat in the best ways possible Up she went. Took a couple of hours, but eventually she was settled securely on the hard and ready for a few weeks of beautification. We tied up the many loose ends, including removing our sail bag for its zipper replacement and mcgyvering a protective UV…
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May 2024
Season 2 is off and running! I’m trying to be positive! Season 2 started in late April again this year, and all winter long we had planned to start out with a trip to Kušadasi port, Türkiye, partly to get the Fish out of the EU for a bit to restart our VAT clock. (If…
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Exploring Lesvos
Finally – more of Lesvos to love! After weeks of being “busy doing other things,” we woke up one morning and realized we would be leaving this island we call home in only another couple of weeks. That day I sorted a car and two nights’ lodging and a few days later we were on…
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Cappadocia, finally
Before we caught the “let’s explore Lesvos before it’s too late” bug, we came down with a serious case of “we have GOT to see Cappadocia.” Back in November, soon after we’d arrived in Mytlini, we talked to Karina and Tim (Matilda) about going together – what’s more fun than a group road trip? Now…
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September 2023 – Part I
In which we have some issues…. And a dearth of photos documenting them. Overarching all our other concerns about returning to Greece from Denver was that we were worried about our Schengen status – I had only 8 days left, and Peter had 15. We’d prepared everything we could for our Greek “Digital Nomad” visa…
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August 2023
Homeward bound It was hot in Denver too, but nothing like we’d had in Greece. We stayed with Peggy for a few days before driving my sister Laura’s car to Minnesota to meet Mia and Laura at our cottage on Lake L’Homme Dieu for the pre-wedding prep. My niece Megan and Nolan were to be…
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May 2023
THIS is what we’ve been waiting for? Or, Ah! THIS is what we’ve been waiting for! Sailing from Tivat to Greece takes a few days. Some just do an overnight passage and arrive 30 or so hours later in Corfu, thereby avoiding the whole checking in and out of Albania. But we wanted to be…
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March 2023
Wait, it’s March already?? We finally made reservations to stay at the Porto Montenegro ski chalet in Kolašin the first weekend of March. Lift tickets were €25 for two days of skiing, and good quality rental equipment was available for even less. Felt safe – surely there would be enough snow, weren’t Claire and Ollie…
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February 2023 – The Rest
It had some redeeming features. Fortunately, February was also the month I got to get on an airplane and fly to Nairobi to spend a week with Peggy. For anyone who doesn’t know Peggy, she and I met in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone in 1985 and have been best friends ever since. She…
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December 2022
New friends – and getting outta town – are good for you. The dreariness of November seeped relentlessly into December, but there were mitigating factors and events that helped us cope. First, as the weeks went by we became more adapted to living on the boat. Small cabins, check. Cold cabins, check. Long walk to…
