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May 29
Photos – Sugarloaf Mountain and the Christ Redeemer Statue – Comments by Marike
There, that’s one major Rio attraction sorted out, now for the next one: We had been advised by some friends to go as early as possible, because it gets crowded up at the statue really fast! We waited for the first clear day, and had a wonderful time ^_^ And us …
May 22
Post Ilha Grande . . . plus the two weeks after that . . .
Hi all =) It has been ages and ages since my last blog, and I’m sure you’re all wondering if we still intend to give you some updates via this blog . . . well, it seems I’m going to have another ”go” at it 😉 Two weeks ago we went to Ilha Grande. …
Apr 10
Wind an’ the waves =) – Marike
Time to blog again . . . Hi all =) I should have written some time ago, but anyway 😉 One thing I have become very aware of since we’ve started this adventure, (well, two things) is that we are really influenced by the weather! Whether its sunny or not, if the wind is blowing …
Mar 05
Franci’s take on our entry into Rio de Janeiro.
I haven’t written for quite a while, so i’m just going to go waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back. Bear with me. When we were drawing near to South America my dad kept on telling us that THIS is what we are going to do when we reach the anchorage and exactly how the anchoring procedure would work. He …
Feb 24
More about our stay in Rio . . . – Marike
For the past few weeks we have been coming to the yacht club almost every day. It is the absolute best place to cool down =) Sometimes we get so cold we all have to donn jerseys and look strange carrying them on our arm from boat to club and vise versa. We haven’t been …
Feb 13
Rio so far – Marike
First, I’m going to write about the food we’ve had so far that was different. Sunday we went shopping, as we couldn’t do any of the customs and that before Monday. We went to a HUGE shopping mall – the whole place crammed with clothes shops, jewellery shops and fast food places. No super market. …
Jan 29
Joys of Sailing – by Marike
The last few days have been extremely frustrating, as we had no wind and our engine has decided it will NOT start. We made about 60 miles in two days with the wind that normally accompanies the rain clouds. (Our usual quota was 100 miles a day). We now have the trade winds back, and …
Jan 25
Life on the go – by Marike
I can’t remember what I have already blogged about, or what my mom has written, so sorry for any repetitions. =) Okay, I think last time was mostly about St. Helena, so I’m going to focus on this trip. All four of us started with school (of sorts) two or three days after we left …
Dec 29
Marike
It’s taking too loooooong! When we started to get used to the boat, it was fun – we could actually move about doing every-day stuff without feeling drugged.. I baked some bread, we moved about and even started eating inside again. Now the wind has dropped, and the boat hardly rocks at all (no more …
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