Dear Friends and Relatives, I know it's been sometime since my last Travelblog and hopefully I will get up todate before Lars and I start again at the end of March. Firstly, if I missed anyone with Christmas and New Year wishes, I apologies. I forgot my address book on the boat when we left in November and didn't have any addresses at all, so, SORRY and hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and New Year. At the moment we are in Malta with our eldest son Peter and Anna his wife to-be. On our arrival we found that the gang-plank [View Full Entry]

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Saturday 11th October Departure Villefranche/France to Calvi /Corsica: 6.25am It’s an early start as we have a long way to go. It’s not that calm today but Chris and Jo were still asleep when we left the harbour. We put the main sail up around 9am. It’s choppy and we need to calm the boat a bit. Poor Jo ends up feeling sick but she doesn’t know if it’s sea-sickness or something else but it knocks her out for the whole trip. Chris is sick a couple of times but he is still on his feet. Arrival Calvi - Corsica: 19.55pm [View Full Entry]

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Dear relative and friends, Hopefully I will try and finish our 2008 trip in the next couple of weeks, hope you enjoy our travels. Sorry it has taken so long. Sunday 19th October Port de Plaisance - Ajaccio Tino Rossi Our friends Jo and Chris have left us and we decide that it's better to continue our journey as fast as possible, as we have heard that storms are on their way and in November we are to pick up a couple of friends in Rome. On the East side of Corsica there are very few harbours or bays to shelter [View Full Entry]

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5th - 10th October We arrived back to Port Napoléon on 5th October. We had some work to do before leaving and continuing our sail. Tuesday 7th October Finally we departed Port Napoléon and sailed to Pointe du Bon Renaud. On the way Lars saw a submarine just going into Marseille. The weather has turned chilly at nights but has been warmer in the days. Our journey so far: Pointe du Bon Renaud Port de Mandelieu - La Napoule In Port de Mandelieu - La Napoule we were very fortunate in visiting with a lovely couple Per and Louise. It was [View Full Entry]

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Dear family and friends, If anyone is interested in our Med. trip so far (from 22nd May to 31sy August) check out Dawnbreaker.se, our Home Page, and go into Forum + photo’s or Blog. It’s all there so far. Before we went home Lars and I visited Avignon and had a lovely days visiting the sights on one of those trains that go around the town. We took some lovely photo’s that we would like to share with you. [View Full Entry]

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To all relatives and friends, I sent to all who are in my address book for my Travel blog an e-mail with information concerning the lockdown of the Travel blog because from now we have a Home Page "www.Dawnbreaker.se". Only half have acknowledge receipt of my e-mail but I hope that everyone will start reading it. If there any problems just let me know via an e-mail to either myself or Lars. Good Luck with reading the new page Lots of love Caroline [View Full Entry]

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26th June Thursday - 18.30pm Arrival in Lisbon - Portugal - Doca de Alcântera Harbour Trip: 269 nmiles Log: 19797 After checking in with the Harbour Master and filling in all the forms required there wasn’t much of the day left. It’s hot and sticky with no wind at all in the harbour. Everyone is tired after sailing in shifts most of the night so all that’s left of today is a good shower and an even better meal. It seems that over the past 10 years alot of the larger harbours have expanded, not just in Europe but also in [View Full Entry]

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20th June Friday Falmouth - Ensenade de Muros/Northern Spain Departure 10.20am We are finally departing England and beginning our trip over to Spain. My first crossing over The Bay of Biscay. I’ve been told several times that the sea can be very rough or very calm which would be a blessing for me. Lars says it may take 3 - 4 days crossing we will just have to see. When we left our mooring we called the Floating Barge in the Harbour but they were fully booked until 15.00pm so we motored over to the other filling station. We were not [View Full Entry]

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12th June Thursday Cowes (Isle of Wight) - Portland Harbour/Castle Cove Departure 7.50am Cloudly and misty this morning at 5.30am when I was awake. I had hoped that it would be clear when we left Cowes but it started raining instead. We had to let the Ferry “ Red Funnel” from Southamton through first then we could leave. Sails up at 8.25am. We had all the sails up, it seems ages since we had all the sails up. We are doing 9-11 kts which isn’t bad. Still cloudy but the sun is trying. The sun came out at 9am. Winds have [View Full Entry]

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Monday 9th June Ramsgate - Brighton Departure Ramsgate 5.20 am Leaving Ramsgate on a lovely day. The winds are very mild so we used the engine which Lars doesn’t like. We passed “The White Cliffs of Dover” at 7.05am and had to slow down for all the Ferries. We put up the sails after Dover 7.30am. We’re doing 7,5 knots. Arrival Brighton 16.45pm. On entering Brighton Harbour we went to the Filling Station first. We had to wait for a long time. We have a very comfortable mooring, close to the Marine Office. It’s a very nice Marina with lots of [View Full Entry]

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