No little yellow birds flew out from a forest to greet us. Instead, the welcome mat was a barren desert island, covered in red dirt as far as the eye could see. After a 5-night passage, I was a little disappointed in this subtropical destination.
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We could see the towers of the Sagrada Família but it was a fleet of sailboats that stole the prize for a welcome gift.
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Is Marseille just a dirty, dangerous fishing port? We spent a week in France’s largest Mediterranean city to find out.
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Our website isn’t broken–I just can’t write that fast…
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We’re now well into Spain and I’m feeling a little nostalgic about the country we left behind. The famous Côte d’Azur was the perfect birthday destination with my niece.
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As I started wrapping my head around this new geography, a puff of volcanic smoke coming from the top of Stromboli made it easier to understand the layout of this Italian archipelago.
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It’s just four miles long and 80 feet wide. It joins two large seas and turned an entire peninsula into an island. Its narrow width makes it impassable by most modern vessels, but Gémeaux made the cut.
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We arrived in Corfu with the European heat wave pushing temperatures over 100 degrees. We should have known records were being set…
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A we sail by Dubrovnik’s walled city for one final look, I realize I can now pronounce doviđenja, but my heart has a hard time saying it.
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After nearly 20 hours of sailing, we are STILL making our way across the southern toe of the Italian boot. The heel of Italy always seems out of reach.
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After being cooped up in an apartment, I was excited we were returning to life at sea. That was until my parents shoved me into a box for 15 hours.
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So, here it was August 15th and we’re in Gibraltar – how do we get to Sicily 1000 miles away by October 1st…and still see the sights?
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So low on the horizon, the first rays of sunshine shot across the ocean, igniting only the limestone cliffs in a golden blaze. We had officially made it across the entire Atlantic Ocean.
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Our adventure began in 2016 when we discovered Gémeaux in St. Martin. We explored the Caribbean, Colombia, San Blas, and The Bahamas, as well as the eastern seaboard of the U.S. In 2022, we crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and sailed as far east as Croatia and Greece. We explored the coastlines of Italy, France and Spain in our final season and exited the Mediterranean late in 2024. We wrapped up the year with a 21-day crossing back across the Atlantic from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean.
Still enjoying memories of the Med, we are happy to be back in the turquoise waters of The Bahamas. We plan to sail back to the US in May and give someone else the pleasure of sailing on Gémeaux. Anybody want to buy a boat?! It has been an adventure of a lifetime but we "think" we're ready to return to land life in California.