Grand Barbados

Welcome to our first travelogue! Our adventure starts off from Las Palmas where we will sail for the first time in our lives, to Cap Verde and then across the Atlantic ocean. Bienvenue sur notre blog! Notre aventure commence par un voyage en voilier de ...

On and of boats for the past 4 yrs, currently working as a deckhand aboard a 30 metre beauty.

We're on our way to, what for us is a great adventure. I guess when you hit 60 it doesn't take much to qualify as an 'adventure'! We're not leaving until the end of September but part of the excitement is in the planning, so i thought I would share ...

Guy, Jess, Georgie and Maggie set out on a new adventure, California Dreaming with a Tequila Sunrise, then on to Bolivia, Peru the Florida Keys and even *gasp* a cruise of the Caribbean. Here's to new adventures.

The Crossley Family Sailing Adventures on their 46ft Leopard Catamaran "Bella Vita". Or "Beautiful Life" for those of you who dont speak Italian.

I have set this blog up to record our trip around the world and keep our family, friends and anyone else that may be interested, up to date with where we are and what we've been up to. The inclination of a world trip came from Claire, and at first the ...

A new adventure between two seas.

This travel blog is to chronicle the fantastic cruise that my mother and I took in Nov/Dec 2008. We fly to Barbados and then -- aboard Princess Cruises' "Sea Princess" cruise to St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Kitts, the British Vigin Islands, the Dominican ...

A carribean cruise honeymoon :) Aruba Curacao Grenada St. Kitts Barbados St. Vincent St. Thomas Dominican Republic Turks & Caicos

Domenica, Grand Turk, St Kitts, Martinique, St. Maarten, St, Vincent, Antigue, St. Lucia, Domenican Republic, Barbados.

George and Kathy along with grandson Michael Dos Santos Olinger, age 11,explore the Amazon during a special GRAND trip for a wonderful grandson.

... ); St Thomas (US Virgin Islands); St Maarten (Dutch & French island); Antigua; Dominica; St Lucia; Grenada; Bonaire; Curacao; and Grand Cayman. If possible, we will Skype those with webcams (will text to let you know we are available) and hope to be ...

... wonderful splashing through the puddles...laughing...life does not get any better than walking down a pier in the pouring rain in Barbados...holding hands...and understanding that life will never get better than this!   Two days at sea...Grand Turk ...

... to miss this place.  It was a beautiful area and I wish we could have stayed a little while longer.  We had to get back to Bemus Point.  It would not be long before we were going to the Grand Canyon. We had an uneventful trip back ...

... and get it all up to date when we get the anchor down in Barbados SY Sharkita en-route Las Palmas, Gran Canaria to Carlisle bay, Barbados. Distance 2900 Nautical Miles Travelled so far 1703NM Position Report at 12/01/10. . 14.00 UTC.: N 15'59. W ...

... to make the best of your beach vacation when you're not in bathing suit. ·    Take a sunset cruise in Barbados while you indulge in a glass of rum punch. Submerge yourself without getting wet in a Cayman submarine and explore life in ...

... grassy spaces, an ornate Victorian bandstand, fabulous flowerbeds, ancient trees, and of course two cricket pitches. Cricket is king in Barbados and many famous cricketers born here (if I knew anything about the sport I could list them all for you, ...

... was good, films were good (Watchmen, aaaaaaawesome!), slept lots, all in all a pretty good long-haul flight! Then i realise, "I'm in Barbados!!!"  albeit only for one night.  I'm glad i decided to couchsurf not get a hotel cos by this point I ...

... . On est donc finalement arriver a la Barbade dans une mer dechainee avec un vent de furie (40 a 50 noeuds) et lessives. Il etait grand temps que ca ce termine...      Pour finir : traverser l'atlantique a la voile ca sert a rien, a ...