tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43850300158893603212024-03-05T15:57:14.406-08:00World Tour Stories - Alex and Taru sailing aroundThe World Tour - Alex and Taru are sailing around the world with their Hallberg Rassy 352. Follow their stylish and dreamlike adventures.todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comBlogger517125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-61599953116090697622011-07-27T06:25:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.929-07:00On the coast of GuadeloupeCan you feel the tranquility of this moment above? We are finally out on the vast seas. Cannot with words describe the feeling of having everything and nothing in front of you like this after being kind of locked up in one place for such long time (almost two months). This is where we belong. The sea is addictive and the freedom that comes with it is a feeling I'd never want to live without, evertodayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-46531339957537417752011-07-25T15:06:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.929-07:00nogreaterloveGot sick and tired of my blonde/orange hair the other day. Feels good to be back to dark again.todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-28697538890978472912011-07-25T05:40:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.929-07:00Good bye AntiguaEarly morning in Antigua. Still loads of things to do around here but we will make sure to finally be able to leave super early tomorrow morning. We've been here in Antigua for almost two months now which wasn't at all what we originally planned for, but we've had a really good time on this island and also we have solved loads of things (getting a new boat for example) during our time here. But todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-77958340768858344622011-07-23T10:06:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.930-07:00no sailing today thank you very muchThink I'll stay in bed for the rest of the day.Suits me most perfectly after a late bar night last night with our lovely new friends.h a n g o v e rtodayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-42268126484604849232011-07-22T05:24:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.930-07:00Stormy weatherWe were kind of supposed to leave towards St Martin today to visit our new boat, but this heavy rain and thunderstorm won't let us. We just had some gusts up to 60 knots of wind here in this bay and when studying the storm potentials on this excellent website, it also looks like we should keep an eye out for a tropical storm that is now building East of the antilles. We know that we aren't in thetodayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-69695216917183036122011-07-21T14:21:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.930-07:00Rum for allHere's our friend Byron. He's homeless and spends his days hanging around here in between Nelsons Dockyard and Falmouth Harbor. He sometimes asks people for money and so also us and I guess we've given him some dollars every time we had something with us. Since we have gotten to know each other better now as we've been around here a few months, we occasionally buy him a bottle of rum, too, todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-64967731865160335852011-07-21T06:42:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.930-07:00Some of the highlightsWhile we are busy here with packing and moving and god knows what else, maybe you'd like to go through some of our old favorites from this tour. There is the long Atlantic crossing, one night in the Souk of Rabat in Morocco, the amazing feeling of Cabo Verde, one day of hitch-hiking in Corsica and much more... We can't wait to get out and explore more of the culture and people of these todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-14510334645056927292011-07-20T16:24:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.931-07:00Sorry to keep you all on tenterhooksSo this is now our new 43' baby. It was a rainy, dark and windy night when we began looking around for another boat online. Something that could match our requirements with additional space, a boat with a longer length of hull to make us go faster and we wanted her to offer a possibility for us to be able to rebuild it a bit to our personal taste. Suddenly we found her. We both went oooh and aaahtodayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-41272060936532983232011-07-20T10:01:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.931-07:00Daily purchase/fruit shopping in Saint John'sPineapple, mango, tamarind, soursop, orange, kiwi, banana, starfruit, melon, sugar apple, papaya.... todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-11353386091659883202011-07-19T14:04:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.931-07:00One misshaped cakeSo I ended up trying out a guava sponge cake roll instead with an old recipe that I had here. By the way, what do you call this thing in English/American? It's called rulltårta in Swedish and kääretorttu in Finnish FYI, but when I google translate this into English it says Swiss roll, and I don't know if you guys refer to Switzerland when you're talking about cakes like this or where did you get todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-1381431064098908452011-07-19T10:52:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.931-07:00Baking breakNot too much fun things happening around here at the moment, can't wait to sail away in a few days. We're both dying to get moving on the sea again. Currently we're still busy with cleaning, organizing, moving out and unloading things from the boat to make space for visitors arriving in ten days, and simultaneously I'm trying to get some of my work done while Alex fixes with his things here on todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-38104781825912143682011-07-18T15:36:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.932-07:00Papers signedSo the papers for the new boat are..... SIGNED!! Which technically means that we now have a new family member to start nursing and making her ready for a continued tour across the oceans of the world. Will give you more details of it all very soon, don't worry. We just have so incredibly much to do around here at the moment so that will have to wait a while. I hope you can be patient.. We are todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-82070929272706797692011-07-18T08:25:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.932-07:00Dear followers and fansToday we've hit a magic number. We're now having 400 Followers here on Blogger. Thank you all for following! And you're not only quietly following behind the screen as we can see on our backlink statistics, relatively high Pagerank and our Alexa rank, you guys are incredibly keen on sharing your thoughts about this blog with others, too! I don't think we could have ever imagined todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-15245345530613238862011-07-18T06:36:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.932-07:00It's all about timeOne other good thing with leading a life like we do, far from it all to repeat myself for the hundredth time, is that you have all the time in the world to make all those things you never usually would have the time for. At home in the city, you continue to collect pages from magazines, handwritten notes and bookmarks are slowly filling up your computer with things that you should get back to, totodayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-20439547679917213772011-07-17T16:57:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.932-07:00One night in AntiguaLots of work done here today. We slept an amazing 13 hours last night and worked for approximately 12 today. Up again quite early tomorrow morning to finalize some stuff with the moving of things from the boat to our storage on land and then we have approximately 3-4 days left here on this island for this season as it seems, before we set sail towards new adventures in the Southern parts of the todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-43564396676555028892011-07-17T05:52:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.933-07:00Running awayQuite often since we began this journey of ours, we have received the same question: What are you running away from? Just like a journey around the world, and a detachment from what you might think is "normal" is something that must be "wrong". We have sometimes met this perception that exists out there that people who are not interested in locking themselves up with a conventional job or todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-40443740383636077782011-07-16T11:27:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.933-07:00Lime juiceThe best juices are the ones free from artificial flavors, colors and preservatives. I prefer to make my own as often as possible to gain the important and healthy vitamins that only fresh fruit brings. Back home in Barcelona I used to make orange juice almost every morning of beautiful orange fruits from Valencia, here it is merely lime and mango versions that are on the schedule. This todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-91576681268251660782011-07-15T13:42:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.933-07:00Happy Weekend you alljust a sneak peak of what was hiding inside of the package..todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-17575378840196863062011-07-15T06:32:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.933-07:00Good morningWhat better way to start off the day than with plenty of tropical vitamins?Sugar apple (pretty similar to the South American cherimoya which I love), starfruit and mango. Because yes, there are plenty of other delicious fruits in the Caribbean than only my beloved mangoes.One commenter reminded me of the quote from one inspiring man who once upon a time in the 50's left his successful career as todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-20751531476804312452011-07-14T14:30:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.934-07:00DeliveryJust got a package from Brazil.... what can it be?Will show you soon, I'm sure you will like it.It is very interesting to read your thoughts by the way, like in the previous post below for example. Most of you can relate to what I have to say, some of you don't and that is fair and highly normal as we all are shaped differently - but also quite a few of you have the tendency to read wrong into todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-43643621497615223712011-07-14T07:22:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.934-07:00Fear and fallingWhat many people do wrong in this life is that they don't dare to make mistakes. It can drive me insane when I see so many human beings with great potential being locked up because they are afraid to fail, afraid to fall, and desperately they hold on to the only reality they ever knew, thinking that this must be the only way to go, even when they're not content with their life situation. But it todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-27921621489010422522011-07-13T18:02:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.934-07:00All things cocoAnd I ain't talking about Chanel this time.What is more refreshing under the sun than fresh coconut water straight from the fruit?I think I could live on coconuts, mango and ... rum and all things made of them. My three all time Caribbean favorites.todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-15696862934654547282011-07-13T08:47:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.934-07:00The scrumptious Caribbean Rum Cake - Win your own! (Tävling)Having read raving reviews about the flavorful Caribbean rum cakes at many occasions now, particularly on the Caribbean guide Uncommon Caribbean, I have been dying to personally find out what all the fuzz was about. I have myself concocted my own cakes spiced up with rum a couple of times but never had the chance to try out the real traditional Caribbean versions before now. In Antigua,todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-22647182142767361712011-07-12T17:32:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.935-07:00dreaminglots on our minds here in between hard work at the moment. so much to plan for, so much to see, so much to do and to fulfill, so many things we wish to indulge in and to explore.... the world is full of so many opportunities. we just have to be awake and go through our lives with eyes wide open to be able to catch them when they arrive. todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385030015889360321.post-59974652090187121522011-07-12T11:53:00.000-07:002011-07-27T07:52:19.935-07:00UpdatesThe link to our Twitter page here to the right hasn't been working the last couple of days but seem to be alright now again.Also many other links, facebook plugin buttons and pages on this blog are not in complete order but I have had so much other things to do so not had the time to sort it all out as yet. But you guys are patient, I'm sure.It all should be perfected in the end of this week or todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05746071176700342422noreply@blogger.com