Seaclusion's Travels Through the Med Blog
The Ligurian Towns of Imperia & Loana
8:30 am, having been woken up by the bin lorries early call, (we forgot to mention that in our last blog, but essentially the streets were too narrow for normal sized bin lorries so...
Italy´s San Remo and Ventimiglia.
On the 29th June, we set sail the 16NM’s to Italy’s San Remo, in a north 4 gusting 5, sails reefed for the most part, and 3 hours later, managed to grab one of...
The French Medieval Old Town of Menton
On the 27th June, we set sail in an easterly F2 to 3, sadly under grey skies again, heading for Menton, passing Monaco and Monte Carlo, which is all we can do as Seaclusion...
Èze-sur-Mer & its Medieval Sister!
With Seaclusion safe in her anchorage, we decided to “pop” across the bay to go and explore Èze. “Pop” we laugh, Navily said it was about 1.9NM’s across, but 30 minutes later, passing under...
The Old Fishing Village of Villefranche
We left the Lerins Islands on the 24th June heading for Villefranche, bypassing both Antibes and Nice for now. We had very little wind so ended motoring most of the 20NM’s, but still it...
Cannes and its tiny Iles de Lerins
With absolutely no wind we motored 12NM´s across to the Port of Cannes…and opted for a safe mooring in the harbour so we could relax and enjoy Cannes without any worries… well that would...
Continuing Eastward along the French Riviera
Having left the madness of St Tropez and calmness of our bay, which was to be no more due to a change of wind direction we set sail again on 17th June back towards...
St Tropez, aka Posers Paradise!
Finally by 9.30 in the morning of the 15th June, we were back on the water and saying goodbye to Frejus! We headed back towards St Tropez, to anchor in a quiet bay just...
More traumas and some light relief in the town of Frejus!
So, all sorted, or so we thought, we spent a peaceful night (7th June) on anchor outside of Ile de Embiez, then set sail for Ile de Porquerolles, or Profiteroles as C kept calling...