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Retirement Is Fun!
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
Latest News From Esprit
Sydney, August and September 2024
Annie and I decided we should do something about all the hundreds of old photos in boxes and albums cluttering up our cupboards. We bit the bullet and ordered a Plustek photo scanner that scans a 6 x 4 photo in 2 seconds. After two weeks of work in the July winter...
Sydney, July 2024.
Esprit was lifted out at Quays Marina on the Pittwater on the 8th July. We were quite shocked and embarrassed at the amount of marine growth and barnacles on the hull, keel and rudder after not sailing her for two months. The guys at Q-Service assured us that most of...
Netherland – June 2024.
An Easyjet flight flew us from Milan to Schiphol airport on the 18th June. Amsterdam Airport (Schiphol), built on the site of the former Haarlem Lake, is 4 metres below sea level - it is the second largest airport in the world. From here we took a train to Utrecht,...
Northern Italy – June 2024.
After arriving at Milan’s Malpensa Airport on the 9th June, we took a taxi to the nearby Indie Camper van depot to collect a VW California Camper. This van would be our home on wheels for the next nine days to travel around the lakes on the southern side of the Alps...
Berlin – June 2024.
We arrived in Berlin, via Zurich at 2pm on Monday the 3rd June 2024, after nearly missing our flight in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The taxi we booked online the night before for a 5am pickup, failed to show up! So, with no Uber in this city, we both frantically...
Dubai, Portugal and Spain – May 2024.
On the 14th May we flew to Dubai, a city and an Emirate in the United Arab Emirates known for luxury shopping, ultramodern architecture and serious traffic jams. Dubai has two seasons: hot and very hot. We were lucky to have 38 - 42 deg C temperatures. But, made the...