The Alternative Blog!!
VulcanSpirit
Richard & Alison Brunstrom
Sun 3 Apr 2011 20:17
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Yes it's me writing a blog for a change!! I thought
some of you might be getting a bit fed up of the zoology and geography lessons
and might want to hear more of the nitty gritty stuff.
I'm usually busy swabbing the decks down, washing
cloths by hand and cooking all at the same time, whilst Richard
is hard at work on the computer!!
 Making scones, if only the cooker was up to my
baking.
A year ago today, the 1st April, we left Deganwy
marina so it was quite fitting for us to be on the island of Anegada
in the British Virgin Islands on this anniversary. We visited here about 12 years ago with Kate and Tom on a Sunsail
charter - I thought then it was paradise found and luckily it still
is.
It is my favourite island so far (together with
Muck on the west coast of Scotland if only the weather was as good.) I won't bore you with the details of the place as I'm sure
Richard already has, except to say it has miles and miles of crystal clear
turquoise still waters behind a reef, fantastic for swimming and
snorkelling and beautiful white sandy beaches with hardly a soul on
them.I could quite happily spend a week here just walking around the whole
island beach combing.
 Our favoured mode of transport these
days
  What we have to put up with!!
It has been a very interesting and eventful year as
you can imagine.
We have had fun with all our visitors and I shall
miss the Red Cross parcel run from them all. But now we have to get
used to just each other's company!!
I think we have only just started to settle down
and relax and get used to this gypsy way of life, as well as each
other.
Life is never boring and was quite
unsettling at first, you never quite know where you are going to next
and what it might throw at you!
The daily boring chores still have to be done,
cooking, cleaning,washing and shopping, usually in much more difficult
conditions than at home thus taking ten times as long, especially as the
logistics of shopping and getting supplies back to the boat when found can
be quite challenging.
We have visited some very beautiful places and
met some very interesting people as well as making some very good friends on our
way.
I do have moments when I miss family and
friends and wish I could be sharing these fantastic places together with
family. Hopefully they will all get out to visit us at some
point. Tom is manageing to fullfill his quota!!
I do realise how lucky we are to be doing what we
are doing, it's our way of escaping from reality but what the heck!
I'm looking forward to our next 12 months ahead
with hopefully not too many exciting sailing
moments!!
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