A pile of prepared documents but none used For me, has a Thai passport holder, it always been and will be, complicated every time we decide to travel. I can’t just go to buy last minute ticket and walk without luggage, always need advance planning. João and Maria Dee both hold Portuguese passport. They have […]
Gomes’s family at Fátima, Summer 2013 When I was pregnant the only thing we are concerned about way the health of our first child-to-be. We always pray for him/her to be born as a healthy and perfect child. We didn’t care about the ultra sound to see what gender he/she was as long as it was […]
Sail away with Me This article should be dedicated to NaE since now she is in the mind preparation stage for the coming new lifestyle, completely different from what she has now! As she’s from the “Big City”, she cares more about “face” and “materials” but it’s not her fault! Her parents raised her in […]
Over 80 hours of flights, five airplanes and many hours without sleep was the price to pay to see our sailboat before completing the transaction. After all contacts, the inspection and first deposit, it was time to book a ticket. Since the rest of the family could not go, just me (João) went to the […]
Despite the celebrations had started in 2000 in Portugal, only now Asian countries began, gradually, celebrating this historical feat, each year in which country when officially the Portuguese sailors reached their shores. The sixteenth century sailing adventures of the Portuguese were a constant presence in all the conversations that we were having, reason why, reinforced […]
When we started with the idea of this trip we didn’t know very well what to expect in terms of preparation. We knew we had to have a boat, so that was the priority. We had a sailboat in Macau but its size was not enough for this trip. Elissa our 25” in Macau So […]
Noel the French Bulldog’s Life on Board Our Sailboat
Noel, the French bulldog Since we start planning our new kind of lifestyle in a sail boat, Noel never stopped being part of our concerns. In fact we’re more concerned about him than ourselves! Before we had him, we did research to find out he would be the best breed for us, living in apartment […]