As its getting late in the season we decided to head back to Italy for the Winter. A nice farewell meal on board Infinity with Captain Ken and Annette and crew and we weighed anchor at daybreak to sail to Italy. We arrived at Vieste in Italy late in the day after an easy days sail, checked in and went to town to take a look around. Shirley and Valo are coming to spend a week with us as we head South along the coast in preparation for hauling Sephina out for the Winter in Bari. Meanwhile we have someone interested in buying Sephina so we are considering whether to sell her and upgrade to a Lagoon 400 (extra 2 ft length)
, which will mean continuing on next year from Les Sables D’Olonne in France again, instead of Greece and Turkey. After some to’ing and fro’ing the decision was made and Sephina now belongs to Wendi from the USA. We helped arrange delivery to the Canaries where Wendi is planning on sailing her across the Atlantic. You can read about her travels here.. http://wendi.com/sail/
She has renamed Sephina to ‘As You Wish’ so keep an eye out for her in the Caribbean. Hopefully Jen and I will be meeting her in person when we eventually arrive there. We didn’t meet Wendi and the whole sale was basically handled online. Lots of work but all’s well that ends well. We had a good week with Shirley and Valo, although not much sailing, but what there was was enjoyable. Then a week of buying a car, cleaning and preparing Sephina for her delivery trip, as well as packing our clothes and personal items to head back to France. With some great hope from Gianluca in Bari we managed to buy a renault espace and sort out all the paperwork to be able to drive it back to France. We had a nice road trip, yodelling most of the way through Switzerland and a couple of great days in Strasbourg before arriving back in the North.
A month in the North, with a short trip down to Venice with Jens mum (her first time on a plane) and we were flying back to Australia for the summer…
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