The Easter Bunny found us
Despite emailing the Easter Bunny to tell him we’d be in New York, he still worked out that we were stuck in Fort Lauderdale and scattered a few eggs around the boat. Clever bunny. The kids had fun hunting them down and gathering the spoils. The small plastic eggs that contained the goodies are much […]
Fingers crossed
Well, as far as we know, we are due to leave the dock at 9am tomorrow morning and be loaded onto a ship about 10am. We’ve been at this point before, of course, but for various reasons we are fairly confident this will go ahead as planned. We are packed, once again. Since we didn’t […]
Conspicuous Consumption
“A port rots ships, and the men in them” is a quote attributed to Lord Nelson, and he didn’t even visit Fort Lauderdale to know that. Perhaps our view of this city is jaundiced by being forced to sit here in the marina waiting for a ship, but I’m afraid that this place encapsulates all […]
Wonderful meeting
One of the (few) benefits of being here in Fort Lauderdale is that a gentleman called Dave J lives a few miles away. Now, for those of you who have been reading around our website, you may remember that Dave is a past owner of the boat, cherishing her for over fourteen years and covering […]
Update from Fort Lauderdale
So we are still here, sweating in the heat and humidity and trying to make the most of a stay in Fort Lauderdale. Not easy, I tell you, but that’s the subject of another post. The shipping agent now says we are on a ship next Wednesday, 15th April. The assure me this will sail, […]
Crazy day. Still in Fort Lauderdale
So if you read my last post, you’ll know that the shipping agent sparked three mad days of action on Ty Dewi by asking us to load onto a ship today instead of in two weeks time. Yesterday afternoon they sent us an email confirming loading would begin around 9am. We stripped the boat of […]
Ty Dewi the toy boat
It’s all a bit crazy here because the shipping company emailed us just after my previous posting to ask if we could load on the ship on the 8th instead of the 18th. That gave us three days notice, so here we are, packing and preparing like mad. We decided to book into a marina […]
Fish finger report
Gesa: These are the best fish fingers I’ve ever tasted Issie: (eats all of them then says) I didn’t like the fish fingers Max: These are NOT THE RIGHT KIND OF FISHFINGERS sigh.
Canada Bound
I suddenly realised that we keep telling our new cruising friends about our plans for the next couple of months, but haven’t really shared them on the blog so here’s an update. Well, right now we are almost leaving the Bahamas and the next six weeks will see great changes in the Ty Dewi adventure. […]
Many photos from the Exumas
So here is a set of collages showing some of the places we’ve been over the past few weeks. As usual, click the picture for a bigger image. First, Hawksbill Cay in the National Park. As well as the usual amazing water colours and clarity, there were ruins to explore, a plantation from the times […]