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We sailed from Porto Palo after a slightly disturbed night (wind across swell) and made good time to start with – wind was off our beam at...

We seem to be establishing a pattern here: 1. go to a place we’ve barely heard of with a plan to stay a couple of days. 2. Get caught by...

We were really impressed with the ANZAC Day service in Malta.   Attended by the President of Malta and ambassadors from France, Italy,...

Malta sits right in the centre of the Mediterranean, a day’s sail from Tunisia and from Sicily, thus forming a kind of bridge between Afri...

For the first few hours we had a decent wind behind us as we followed Hephaistos out of Lampedusa towards the island of Malta. Lat...

We left Monastir at last on the afternoon of March 28, and enjoyed ideal south-westerly winds for the first two-thirds of the short hop to...

                                            The French know theirs is the best... Olivier’s Hamburger. This is how the French make ...