The high winds came as predicted, it always seems worse at night when you’re trying to sleep, we could hear it howling through the masts causing halyards to rattle, this noise along with the rocking and jolting of the boat as it pulls on the mooring lines, caused us a couple of restless nights! Winds […]
We have had sunshine with some fairly strong winds this week, it has now clouded over and the forecast is that the weather will be stormy over the next couple of days with winds gusting up to 50 kts. Many local fishing boats have come into the marina and moored up against the wall for […]
Hope you all had a good Easter, there wasn’t too much happening here as the whole of Italy was back in full ‘red’ lockdown for the weekend. On Good Friday we learnt from our Latvian friend of their tradition for making Easter eggs, these are colourfully died hard boiled eggs, so we decided to give […]
It’s hard to believe that it is already April and that Easter is with us. We would like to wish you all a very happy Easter, hope you have a good weekend and get the opportunity to spend some time with friends and family. This week we joined in with a sailing rally which was […]
It seemed like Sicily had not realised that it was the first day of spring this week as the weather here deteriorated, we had some storms and high winds which certainly didn’t feel like the first sight of summer. Thankfully it only lasted a few days and has now improved again! We are fast approaching […]
After visiting the interior of the castle, we were delighted to discover that the grounds were also open for us to explore It turns out that Baron Carrado Arezzo was an expert botanist, and started work on the big park which lies around three sides of the castle and covers an area of 8 hectares, […]
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