BellaIsSailing

It is Sunday morning here in sunny (well rainy today) Turrialba, today I got up like most days at about 6.30am, had a delicious breakfast, laughed through our daily meeting which I turned up like all days in shorts and a singlet and right now after about eight weeks in Costa Rica I am enjoying my first morning off, sitting in our lovely staff room overlooking Volcan Turrialba writing to you all! So hands down my Raleigh experience so far has been one of the most intense, captivating, motivating and enjoyable experiences of my life. I have so many words to write here today as over the last six weeks since I have written I have explored many new and rough lands in our trusty Landrover with our drivers Ian & Fraser, met a whole load ... read more

Hi Everyone Happy new year… This diary entry is well overdue. The fact that people are writing to me saying “Bella when are you going to update your blog” means to me that it is really time to write and that some people are actually reading this blog and getting some enjoyment out of it. Well December was an interesting month, as I reflect and read through my diary a lot happened in that month, some incredibly fantastic experiences and some damn bad and enlightening ones (well one anyways). I will start by saying that in December and up until the first week in January I caught over 15 trains, several busses, 5 planes, a couple of car rides, a few taxis & yes and ambulance which all in all took me to and through six ... read more

So the first thing I did before I decided to write today was to try and figure out when was the last time that I wrote, and I just figured that it has been five weeks, my longest stint without committing anything to writing on my trip to date! Perhaps there are reasons for this, the first is that I spent my first two weeks in Genova discovering the city, reading all the tourist information guides, theatre guides, getting lots of sleep, cooking lots of food and of course starting at a new school. My first two weeks in Genova I timed my arrival into Genova perfectly as on my first weekend here the biggest boat show in the world namely Salon di Nautica that is held in Genova annually was on, the boat show is ... read more

Ciao, Come Va Ragazzi? (This means hi everyone how are you!!) As I write this it is Friday afternoon and I am sitting out on the terrace of my apartment with a glass of wine watching the sun setting over the holy cross on top of the mountains of the Amalfi Coast. Another school week in Italy is over so in total I have been a full time student (studentesa) learning Italian (parlo Italiano) for three weeks (tre settimana). So is that the extent of my Italian you ask? No, ma parlo poco italiano (I speak a little bit of Italian). It has taken me a while to think about writing this blog entry as my head has been so full settling into a new country, finding a home, starting school again(and yes it is like ... read more

We arrived back in St Malo in France at 9pm and headed straight for the car park where Betsy was waiting for us still all in tact on the outside after spending one week in the car park. During the ferry trip back to St Malo Cara was slightly nervous that we would not be able to start Betsy as she has had issues with the battery running flat if it is not used for a bit. We were very relieved when Betsy started the first time so we high-footed it out of the car park and were on our way to Quiberon for the Hobie Cat European Championships Our aim was to make it to Quiberon that evening so with some determination, loud music to keep us awake and clear directions from Timmy (downloaded from ... read more