On day 2 most of us woke up to paradise, aka 9:30am where all our yachts were already sailing in open waters towards the islands of the La Maddalena archipelago. Way better than yesterday’s start. We didn’t miss a beat to finally feel the winds at our back...
The first day of Yacht Week’s first official voyage to Sardinia & Corsica: a frenzy of check-ins, security deposits, last minute provisional shopping, under 2 flash thunderstorms…aka the not so fun stuff. But we already would know all this: After 3...
From a little village by Oristano, we then headed out north towards the Punic and Roman archaeological sites of Tharros: Climb to the top for views over western Sardinia: There’s still active excavations going on here! If you’re into the...
Another monsoon begins, and this time in Sardinia: the Italian island between where we were only 1 month ago among the Balearic Islands and the Italian peninsula. I finally got to redeem all the thousands of miles I accumulated over the year of the pandemic without...
Arriving promptly at 7:15pm on the daily ferry from Mallorca we waited outside for about 20 minutes for even a single cab to show up and take us into the main city. It might be best to hail one ahead of time before you dock as taxis in Menorca really do come few...
Taking the 8pm ferry from Ibiza via Balearia, we arrived about nearly 3 hours later at 11pm (don’t let them fool you with the 2 hour listed time; the boat got in 1 hour later than scheduled). And FYI, they’re not very clear about this but the arrival...
Traveling during a pandemic understandably requires flexibility. So when the UK announced on July 19th that they were keeping Americans on its amber list and that people were concerned with the way they were reopening, we made an executive decision to err on the...
