The perils of coming home

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Carol,

All sounds very tough. I expect you'll bring Widbird back via Plymouth? Send us a pm when you're back in home waters; it would be good to rendezvous for a cuppa.

Robert & Deborah

 

[ccscott49]

The words "coming home" really say it to me... I long to come home.. I spent three months back in the UK this winter and loved it.Came back to collect a new dog, having lost my other one in October, so a sort of enforced stay whilst we sorted out his passport.. but walking in the Lake district, tending gardens, going to English pubs, going to Dartmoor... all just wonderful after Greece.

After three months i was sort of wanting to come back, but now I am here, I am hating it. Made 500% worse, because my horse died whilst giving birth 4 weeks ago and then yesterday my gorgeous new pup was poisoned by the barsteward greeks. We've just buried him alongside my old dog, out in the dunes in lefkas.

So... That is it... I am coming home! I much prefer England/scotland/(and to be fair Brittany) to virtually all the places I have visited in the Med. Heat and scrub is no match for cool, sheep grazed grass, the delights of the Isles of Scilly and the west coast of Scotland, amongst many other places. Not to mentions friends and family.... and yes the garden and chickens and lovely walks in the hills.

You can stuff the med as far as I am concerned.

Very sorry to hear about your Dogs and horse. Also sorry that the dream has died. I totally agree with you about all of what you say, the rubbish tipping etc. They just dont give a damn about anything but themselves and money. We will cruise here for this year and maybe next, but not to Turkey I feel. Then I feel its also time to be heading west again, maybe to Portugal first then back to UK.

 

[tri39]

Carol, sorry to hear about your dissolution with Greece.
Have you thought of sailing north to green and pleasant north Italy? (I did!).
You could later truck your boat back from Slovenia to the UK.

Pm me if you want names>

 

[jonic]

I am pleased to say that our new swinging mooring in Poole is helping enormously with the "change". It's almost like the real thing and bizarrely we really are enjoying going to the boat more now she is not in a marina.

Several times I have taken the launch out in the last week and just pottered doing some jobs for an hour or so, and for a while have been blissfully removed from the madding crowd.

Here's a pic of our new view


I am going to lug some shopping out there in a choppy sea in the dink and drop the milk or bread in the water at the transom steps for extra liveaboard authenticity

 

[Tradewinds]

I am pleased to say that our new swinging mooring in Poole is helping enormously with the "change". It's almost like the real thing and bizarrely we really are enjoying going to the boat more now she is not in a marina.

Several times I have taken the launch out a few times in the last week and just pottered doing some jobs for an hour or so, and for a while have been blissfully removed from the madding crowd.

Here's a pic of our new view


I am going to lug some shopping out there in a choppy sea in the dink and drop the milk or bread in the water at the transom steps for extra liveaboard authenticity

That's good news. Also, don't forget to do the washing up in seawater & throw the knives & forks overboard .

 

[jonic]

That's good news. Also, don't forget to do the washing up in seawater & throw the knives & forks overboard .

I'll also do a crucial job that takes hours and then at the last moment drop the critical bolt overboard and pretend I am days away from the nearest chandlery

 

[Malaika]

It's been 14 years since a circumnavigation and we have missed being on the boat for every day of that time - especially my husband who has had to wear a suit and be inside all day-Now planning to set off again but this time with kids. Bit concerned about how different it is going to be with kids- it was so carefree without! But also looking forward to exploring the oceans with them.

 

[Slow_boat]

I was a boat bum in the 70's and came ashore in the early 80s. If I'd met swmbo then I don't think we would have stopped. Anyway, I knuckled down, got married (and divorced!), got a 'proper' job, had kids and a mortgage, conformed to all the restrictions and expectations society expects of us, moved as far inland as I could to remove temptation and didn't even look at a sailing mag for 15yrs. Until I met swmbo and she re-kindled the real me.

Basically, I've served my time. Two years (maybe less) to go then we'll be boat bums again!!!!

 

[HoratioHB]

Wotcha Jonic,

So you came home then - thought you would be gone forever. As you will probably remember we came home two years ago. You should, you kept on trying to sell me a new boat! Anyway, we were quite glad to get back in some ways. We've sorted out property issues and settled down a bit. However this February as the third week of grey, cold, rainy skies showed no sign of going away we started pining for Rodney Bay. So this summer we're off with a mate to do the ARC in his lagoon 380 and then mosey around the Caribbean again. The sort master plan maybe to go and live in Antigua and do a bit of sailing/chartering etc and maybe acquire a new boat. Oh and I've looked at your web site and can't afford any of them!!

Larry

 

[jonic]

Wotcha Jonic,

So you came home then - thought you would be gone forever. As you will probably remember we came home two years ago. You should, you kept on trying to sell me a new boat! Anyway, we were quite glad to get back in some ways. We've sorted out property issues and settled down a bit. However this February as the third week of grey, cold, rainy skies showed no sign of going away we started pining for Rodney Bay. So this summer we're off with a mate to do the ARC in his lagoon 380 and then mosey around the Caribbean again. The sort master plan maybe to go and live in Antigua and do a bit of sailing/chartering etc and maybe acquire a new boat. Oh and I've looked at your web site and can't afford any of them!!

Larry

Hello HB

Can't afford any of 'em! You haven't spent the kids inheritance already have you?

Going to live in Antigua sounds like a jolly good idea.....yeah mon!

 

[jonic]

Hello HB

Can't afford any of 'em! You haven't spent the kids inheritance already have you?

Going to live in Antigua sounds like a jolly good idea.....yeah mon!

Halcyon Days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se3BMJuFoYY

 

[pW2]

To be honest, I was already unhappy before Ollie's death and was making plans for heading back and perhaps going north to the Baltic/ Norway.. I think this has just accelerated and clarified my thoughts.

Sorry to hear about your loss.
The further north you go the better it gets. But you do need wooly knickers.

 

[Wansworth]

Having done a little liveaboarding a while back I was thinking if the Yachting Monthly seminars on the Big escape included any thoughts on having a change of heart or the other thing that springs to mind people who wait till they retire then find somehow its not how theythought it would be during years of planning,....