Blogs from Newport, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, North America

Les Charbonneau avec le nouveau Castel C nous accompagnent pour explorer le Long Island Sound et ils sont choyés avec une mer calme et très facile à naviguer. Le Castel C connait son premier ancrage avec ses nouveaux propriétaires à Oyster Bay. Le lendemain, l’apprentissage d’un mooring à Port Jefferson. Visite du village avec arrêt à la poissonnerie pour achat de palourdes fraîches et pétoncles et sur le Trusty III, Claudette et Sylvain découvrent 2 sortes de palourdes qui sont si bonnes lorsque local. The weather was great, but when we stopped we could feel the heat. The breeze made it easier. After exploring the south shore of Long Island Sound, we then crossed to the north to Mystic in Connecticut, where we spent 3 days. Our last stop in Long Island was Huntington Bay with ... read more

London again. It's a bit like coming home really, it's certainly the closest thing we've had to a home in 2 months anyway. Only the whole place has changed. Just a week earlier we'd left London for our Scottish and Irish experience and it was still very much a city in early spring. We arrive back on the 7th of May to find summer has definitely arrived while we were away, galavanting around the highlands and watching atlantic sunsets. We have some work to do, funnily enough, and this makes it seem even more homely. Because we are more or less making this trip up on the spot, the only concrete things being our international flights into and out of the big continents, a certain amount of haphazard and last minute planning has to happen before ... read more

In a display of astounding solidarity, the like of which hasn't been seen since Opal Fruits became Starburst, the inhabitants of George Washington Flat 903 were able to pool human resources and score 2 'excellents' and 7 'goods' in our flat inspection this month. While the rest of our flat had been deemed 'good', the bathroom floors in both the male and female toilettes were considered 'excellent' - a mildly sparkling example for the rest of the world to take note. A note at the bottom of our inspection sheet declared that the apartment "is looking great". This is, to be fair, a relatively new state for our flat. As I mentioned in a previous blog, the girls' triple room has not been in the tidiest of conditions. Even my bed area, I'm ashamed to say, ... read more