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Until a trip to NYC in 1993, I had never seen or talked to a person of African descent other than one Brazilian dance teacher. You’d be surprised to know that in Buenos Aires, a city of 12 million people, back then there were barely, if any, black inhabitants. (Allow me to use “black” and […]

Hi there everyone! A quick one to share the latest news. First and foremost, Eleanor is finally underway!! Alex and Pete left Palm Beach this morning. If you want to know where they are you can check their Spot page here: http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0AMqG5d6vf4zm50PgXekcOblsbgU0yd4N Nacho and I spent the last month up there with them and it […]

Alex has been gone for 8 weeks now and it’s the first time I’ve been alone on Splendid for more than one or two nights. It’s me who usually travels. I thought maybe you were curious to know how I’m doing. So here we go. Yesterday afternoon. A sunny day after many rainy ones. Picture […]

Hi there guys, I can’t recall whether that I’ve told you about my food preferences before. Not that it’s of great interest or anything but when I met Alex I was a vegetarian (ovo-lacto vegetarian I think they call it); lately I have started eating fish but only because I don’t have access to much […]

It’s been nearly three years since I met Alex and dove into a life in the sea. I’d always been drawn to the ocean, though, since I was a very little girl. There was always a certain magic every summer when we went to the beach that I did not find anywhere else, not in […]

Wow! I can’t believe how long it’s been since I last wrote something here. I can’t really explain what happened, I honestly don’t know. I’ve been traveling a lot to see family and friends, we’ve been busy as usual, Splendid is really over the hill now and getting prettier and ready to take off, a […]

Things are changing very rapidly. Splendid is finally getting ready. A new website with a new concept is about to be launched. Alex and I are married for the first time. Life seems to have suddenly taken some cool speed; it’s as if an amazing gust of wind had lifted us and is pushing us […]

Hey guys, I’ve been wanting to write something for so many weeks… but you know what happened? A JOB happened. Once you unplug, “work” sucks hahaa it really does though. Since the day I met Alex almost two years ago now, I kept a record of what we did every single day on pieces of […]

This is crazy cheap, easy, quick and delicious. All you need is a blender. Put a handful of almonds in a liter of cold water. Add honey or sugar if you like. Blend for a minute, stopping and starting again for the almonds to fall to the bottom and get really crushed. It is soooooo […]

Hi everybody! Feels like I haven’t posted anything for years but we’ve been soooo busy! I remember when I had just moved in and started writing, the main concern some of you had about living on a boat was how to make money once you unplugged. I mentioned a few things then but now I […]

As you know, we do not have any stores around to buy sweets so, when we feel like having a treat, we have to make it ourselves. A couple of weeks ago we came up with the idea of making almond brittle. It’s the simplest, quickest, most delicious thing you can prepare. We have offered […]

Hi, I’m back. I’ve been thinking a lot and I’d like to share it with you. There’s something I have discovered during these last few months and it is that more and more young people (usually couples) are coming out to live full-time on their sailboats. People from everywhere! Spain, Brazil, France, the States… And […]

Hi everyone! Long time no see again. I’m just back from another trip back to Argentina. I love my country, my family, my friends… I love being back on Splendid too, of course. And even though this means that wherever I am there are people and places I miss, it also means that I always […]

I’ve always thought that making bread and pizza was an art reserved for those who had the gift for it and that the rest of us mortals could only watch them in awe while they punched and stretched that unreachable dough of talent. But, one day, I discovered that even though I sucked at making […]

First of all, I want to thank all of you who have commented, shared your ideas and questions with me. I have a strong personality, I am very passionate when I communicate and find it very hard to be polite. I’d like to apologize if any of you feel I’ve been rude to you. It […]

Hi there everyone! I’m back : ) It’s been a crazy couple of weeks: first I visited my brother in the States (my dad met us there as well) and then my mom came with her husband to spend a few days on Splendid. I love seeing my family, things were not always perfect but […]

Here are a few more ideas to show that you can eat gloriously with a few coins. Also, these are recipes that come in very handy when you are left with dry stuff in the pantry and only the cruiser’s best-friend veggies left (potatoes, onions and garlic). A little something from Italy, Scotland and Spain: […]

So, July has finally arrived and what a loaded month it is this year. I turned 37 on the 11th, it was our six-month anniversary on the 12th and Alex turned 47 on the 14th. But it is also the last month of my tourist visa in Panama and the end of our trial period. […]

There’s something that always surprises me and it’s that most people do not buy grain (other than rice). If they do buy corn, beans or peas, they get them more expensive in a can, already cooked, slimy, with preservatives and other added chemicals. I’ve always been a fan of every kind of wheat, corn, barley, […]

Splendid was running out of water the other day, it hadn’t rained for over two weeks, we had had visitors for a while and we were already considering the possibility of going to one of the two islands where you can supposedly get drinking water in KunaYala. During these last couple of days I realized, […]

I remember watching this film as a child in awe. I dreamt about swimming and twirling in turquoise waters like that, away from crowds, schools, timetables; eating coconuts, fruit, fish, seaweed; drinking water from the stream. I dreamt about sleeping in a straw hut and spending all day in the water and resting under the […]

Fresh fruit and veggies… What a luxury for sailors!  I remember when I first watched Waterworld, everybody fighting for a couple of handfuls of earth so that they could grow something… We sometimes grow sprouts from mung beans but they need so much water! We can only grow them when there’s plenty of rain. We’ll […]

A few days ago, Splendid finally set sail again and left Puerto Lindo.  For me, it was the first time I’d be traveling on a sailboat, but most of all, it was the first time my home would move, an incredible feeling. It was the first time I would travel without having to pack my […]

Oh, the time has finally come! We’re off to Kuna Yala either tomorrow or the next day. It’s exciting and there’s the bitter-sweet taste of facing new adventures while saying goodbye to very special friends and memories in Puerto Lindo. Whether Alex and I stay together for a long time or not, this will always […]

You’ll be surprised at how easy and quick this is! And the best thing is that you don’t need any fresh ingredients, it can be prepared at any time, even during a long passage after weeks of having left the land. Thanks Raffi for the tip : )                […]

Here’s a complete list of what we have in our pantry at the moment. Come and look!   GRAIN AND SEEDS *        brown, white and sushi rice *        whole wheat, corn and white flour *        pancake mix *        dry yeast *        sesame, sunflower and poppy seeds *        wheat and oat bran *        wheat germ, flaxseed […]

I know I’m probably starting to sound like a broken record, like an annoying salesperson, but man am I excited about this new lifestyle I’ve just discovered! I guess I’ll have negative things to say later but right now it’s all yeeeepeee and yahooo and hurraaaay… Apart from the delights of our daily life floating […]

It’s strange. I’ve been living on Splendid for only three months and I find it so hard to go to the land already. Yesterday we traveled to Panama to pick up our visitor, Bruce. Now we are on the way back, we just stopped in Portobelo to grab a bite for dinner and everything in […]

Most of us have been in relationships. Most of us have been, or have thought we were, in love once or twice. Most of us have been around, traveled and had our adventures. But I am starting to think that having a relationship on a boat in the middle of the sea is the most […]