Month: October 2012

Porto and Oporto

Recently, we were able to show our good friends, Ari and Yani, our boat – they are originally from Argentina and had been our neighbors for a few months before moving to another apartment here in Madrid.  We meet regularly to solve the world’s problems; our solutions are frequently offered in an eclectic mix of

The Southampton Boat Show

What better way to celebrate our 16th Wedding Anniversary than to go to a boat show? Well, there are better ways, but the days matched up and we’d really been wanting to visit a European boat show as we had a number of things we wanted, but couldn’t find in Madrid or Porto. After a

Oh the people you’ll meet!

With a nod to Dr. Seuss, the past year has been one experience after another meeting people with vastly different backgrounds than ours – and these experiences (like the one mentioned below) often leave us thinking about our own histories, families, and identities. Recently, after successfully tackling the alternator issue on Shearwater, we had the