Mir, Mandy & Me

I thought I would do a bit of a summary, more so to remind me where we have been more than anything else. We left the UK 650 days ago and have done 8,163 nautical miles. We've had 32 visitors, mostly in Europe, which is about 1 visitor every 2 weeks. We have stopped at 119 locations which is about one different location every 5 days.   We have spent £3,200 on fuel (That is for the engine, generator and outboard) which works out at £34 per week. That is for our heating, cooling, cooking, locomotion, water making, telly, internet, computers, washing machine and of course Mandy's hair dryer. We use about 6KWhrs per day on all of the above and the solar produces around 3KWhrs per day. I remember back on land we used 12KWhr per day in electricity. (This does not include gas cooking and heating) So our power consumption is easily a quarter of what it was on land. (No gas used on the boat) When we started planning this trip, pre covid, we reckoned on a budget of £2,000 per month. In ...

It's got everything. Unbelievably helpful and friendly locals, the old town of San Juan with it's architecture, bars and restaurants. It's got jungles, rain forests, waterfalls, giant radio telescopes, all to the soundtrack of crazy salsa music. It's played everywhere, every boat that passes us is blasting out music, so are cars and even motor cycles and it is LOUD. And there is always someone dancing, I love the place. We had 8 days to explore as much as we could until Richie flew home so we had to find somewhere safe to leave the boat.  They love their flag, it's everywhere We dropped anchor in Roosevelt Roads, a massive bay that used to be a US navy base until the Iraq war, it is now just a ferry terminal and marine police station. Now that's a safe place to leave the boat, outside a police station, but there was nothing else nearby so the next day we moved along heading towards Ponce, the second biggest town in Puerto Rico. We stopped in a bay for the night,...