Views from the marina Three months have come and gone by since my last post. I settled back at home, started university and time has flown since then. But from my experiences last year, travel can never be missing from my life and the call to be back out on the water is still ever …
After a few days in Gibraltar, the whole crew on board Vela was glad to be back on the open water. Life on passage is cyclical: watch, eat, sleep, study. It follows the rhythm of the chase of the sun and moon, and is only demanding of the sea and wind state. Sunsets on Vela …
Continue reading Barcelona and Sardinia: European Summer Decadence
Sardinia had been but a blip in time, we had just arrived and were already leaving. Rome (Civitavecchia really, but who cares about an hour car ride distance?) was our next port-of-call . It was also to be our last. But a glimpse of the Colosseum, visited during a snippet in time Part 1: Student-led …
Continue reading Roma and the end of the best summer of my life
Hello everyone! This is your trainee mate writing from over the Atlantic ocean in Gibraltar. After seven days at sea, we finally made it to the end point of our ocean crossing and can now officially say, we did it! Me, on a cloudy day during passage Coming in to the straight of Gibraltar is …
Sailing across the Atlantic ocean, we finally arrived in the Azores for a week-long stay.
On the course of my 70 day seamester program, we left the BVIs and crossed the Atlantic during a 17 day passage.
After two months back home, I am back out into the world. This time, I am in the British Virgin Islands and am spending those days on Vela, a college summer program hosted on a sailboat, before our departure to the Azores.
Vela After two months spent back at home, I flew off again for more adventures. This time, it is to spend 70 days on a sailing yacht as a trainee. We’ll be travelling from the British Virgin Islands (BVIS) near Puerto Rico to Rome, Italy spending time in the Azores, Barcelona, Corsica and even Sardinia. …
From Santo Domingo to Samaná, I spent two weeks in the Dominican Republic travelling across this resort-frenzy place by sailboat and by bus. Come and discover the history and beauty of this visited yet untravelled place!
A Bee on the Go 