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This year, rather than sailing the classic route by the Azotes to come back to Europe from the Caribbean (well, actually from Colombia), I decided to detour via the East coast of Canada. There were a number of reasons for this. I have already been to the Azores four times, and I wanted to see […]
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Those of you who have been following Apsara’s tracker lately might have noticed that it was in Antarctica. Not with Apsara, though, she’s safely tucked away for the winter in South Brittany. I had found a job as a first mate on an expedition boat which I joined in Brazil in October for the delivery
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The West coast of Ireland is dotted with islands that were inhabited in the early 20th century, but are now deserted, having been abandoned because access was simply too difficult. Probably the best known of these, because of the number of gifted, Irish language writers who lived there and wrote about the islanders’ harsh life,
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