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Friday, March 9th, Badalona, Spain
Well into our "final" month in Badalona, we are finally
getting around to doing a lot of things that we have
been meaning to do here, both in terms of tourism and
boat projects. We are looking forward to resuming
our cruising lifestyle with mixed emotions. We've
made some great friends here that we will be very sorry
to leave. Barcelona has not even come close to
exhausting our wonder and excitement towards its
boundless culture, beauty and history. I am sure
we will leave here with a long list of "I wish we had
seen/done/tried" items. On the other hand, we
can't wait to get out and SAIL again. The rest of
the Med is awaiting us and we are so excited to start
seeing more new places, people, and cultures.
Our social life is slowly approaching the pace I enjoy
most - hectic. We've met some friends of friends
who are locals and we enjoyed a couple of great lunches
getting to know them. We had a taco party for some
of the students in my Spanish class on a glorious sunny,
75 degree Saturday last weekend.
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We
went to see "Alegria," the Cirque du Soleil show that is
in town through April. It was truly amazing to
behold the talent and pride displayed by the performers
in each and every act, from the clowns to the acrobats
to the musicians. Wow.
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Our friend from Annapolis, Hal Whitacre, is coming for a
visit this weekend and we our looking forward to hosting
our first guest here in Spain. It will be fun to
show him the sights and share some of the insight we
have gained in living here for three months.
We've got some new hatches being added to our cockpit
which will allow us to use a lot of empty space that is
inaccessible to us now. We are working on a
modification to our table in the cockpit that will allow
us to lower it down and convert it into a bed (keep your
fingers crossed) so we can accommodate those extra
bodies a little bit more easily. The boat will be
hauled out for standard maintenance, including bottom
paint, saildrive maintenance, new zincs, etc. while we
are away in Paris over the next weekend. Hopefully
we don't discover any unexpected repairs that need to be
done but better now than later. We finally ordered
up a new TempurPedic mattress for our bed. We had
one in our house in Annapolis and Joe has been pining
away for one ever since we moved onboard a year and a
half ago.
With all of this going on, your guess is as good as mine
as to when we will actually get underway again.
Any one want to place a bet on that? Of course,
Mother Nature always has the final say on that topic!
Have a great weekend everyone. We miss you all
more than I can say.
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Update>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Many thanks to our friend Craig Homenko for his assistance in setting up the website.
We also would like
to thank our buddy Scott Brunner who has been kind
enough to host the website on his server.
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