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+1..... If this has been mentioned before on here then apologies but back in February Bloomberg had this: Vodafone Sweeps All Spare Cash Out of Greece ‘Every Evening’ By Jonathan Browning and Amy Thomson Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Vodafone Group Plc is moving cash from Greece into the U.K...

We lived on a Kelt 850 for a few years (take off the sugar scoop stern and its a 27 footer but the internal layout makes it like a Tardis) but I think you can get too bogged down in detail. Just go for it - any decent boat will do. As for working - there will be a lot of impoverished locals...

We never bothered and no probs ( even though we had bought a handheld VHF for the purpose :o)

Bon voyage! Did Honfleur to Sete in 2004. Rushed it so would love to do it again - but in a barge next time. We wintered in Marseillan on the Etang du Thau. Freezing cold so well worth pushing on to Spain. Even Empuriabrava is at least an overcoat warmer. Winter berths can be a big problem in...

We did Honfleur to Sete in 28 days of actual travelling time in a small yacht so Roanne is eminently do-able in 6 weeks. Don't know current situation re fuel in Paris but when we were there in the Bastille marina in 2004 it was a walk to the filling station with our jerry can on a trolley so no...

We had to come home from Chalon-sur-Saone in 2004 and managed to leave our 28 footer with mast down there for the whole of August. She was fine when we got back. We have also left our boat unattended for 3 months in Spain without any problems so unless you have some specific problem that needs...

That is what we did but if you like spreads or cheese etc it can mean you end up chucking stuff away.We solved the milk situation by buying powdered - a habit that we have kept to this day - and only buying small portions.In the Med in winter those parts of the sidelockers below the water line...

I would not worry too much about gear.I would strongly recommend cruising the Channel for a season to see how you and your SWMBO get on in a confined space.We did that and found it was not a problem for us on our Kelt 850 so we laid her up,spent the winter in rented accommodation in Spain(did a...

As has been ppointed out on here it depends where you want to cruise.The Eastern Med is ideal for cruising on a budget.As is Northern Spain but from Gib to the French border it is a bit problematical as many of the anchoring places have been buoyed off so you have to pay to anchor or go into a...

We carried our mast but would not do so if we were to go again.It makes deck work awkward sometimes and is a concern at times in locks.

I have not used the Marne route so I cannot comment.On the Loire route you reach a point at an altitude of about 1000 feet where the water in the locks either drains into the Atlantic or into the Med and it seemed to me that there is a finite amount of water at this point to top up the system.By...

I don't know if you still can but a few years ago we hired a taxi for a tour of Gib that included admission to St.Michael's Cave and some of the military tunnels.Very good way to see Gib IMHO. Torrevieja is a good place to stop for cruisers.There is an English Chandlery,Lidl,Carrefour and it is...

Thanks for that Grehan.Made me feel v.nostalgic.Would dearly love to do it again some time.Trouble is our caravan don't float! :) Cheers. David.

The one and only time I went on a Flot holiday was in Greece.I was YM and my wife was a DS so we had no problems.One of the more competent crews on one of the other yachts were a group consisting of 3 young Irish couples. It was only on the last night that they confessed that none of them had...

Exactly.My point is that the tidal atlas should be the source for tidal stream data from Day 1 of any shorebased course (Be it Reeve Foulkes or Admiralty ones).It would lead to differing answers and take more time but this could be got over by examiners showing an acceptable 'position of...