S/V Artemis

Italy | Tropea | Artemis in Tropea harbor May 24, 2011 Hi Everyone We've moved along our way slowly this past week. No big hurry to get to Montenegro. We had a nice anchorage outside of Cetraro, Italy and then stayed in the harbor in Tropea. Tropea is a neat town but we had to climb 200 steps to reach it from the sea:-)Cool old town with winding cobbled streets and pathways. We motored through Messina Straits on Thursday and anchored outside of Reggio Calibria for the night.

April 23, 2011 Hi Everyone We had a great three weeks with Connie and Steve. They flew home on Tuesday and are safely back on Lake Pulaski, Minnesota. We got a few more projects finished this week, water in batteries, new thermostat sender on main engine, finished side curtains for "the Fort", ran Dutchman and reefing lines on mainsail and varnished the toe rail. It's hard to stay motivated after three weeks of touristing:-) Still lots we should do before we cast off our lin

USA | Illinois | Lake Forest| Italian ragdolls "My Doll" for Emma, Maddie and Josie December 13, 2010 Hi Everyone, We are back in the land of the USA safe and sound. We flew on an Airbus 340/600 with Lufthansa. Good plane and nice having control of your individual TV screen and choice of programs. Lufthansa still feeds you and offers you free drinks even on our short flight to Munich. Munich is a nice clean airport. We'd never been there before. We arrived in Brrrr freezing

Mediterranean Sea |Tyrrhenean Sea| Italy | Tivoli | Villa d'Este November 30, 2010 Hi Everyone, Al and I took the train to Rome on Saturday, Nov. 27 and then caught a bus to the hilltop town of Tivoli. Tivoli was the summer escape for rich Romans. Villa Adriana and Villa d'Este are Unesco World Heritage sites. We visited Villa d'Este and it's magnificent High Renaissance garden first. The villa is in the town of Tivoli. It has many interior frescoes but it's garden is what w

Italy | Nettuno | Old walled City above the marina November 30, 2006 Buon giorno, We ran errands early. We went to the internet, hardware store, paint store, butcher and grocery store. We came home and had lunch then took after the teak again. Al put two layers of clear coat on the teak combing and winch islands. It's hard to keep up with the drips but somebody's got to do it :-) We stopped after two coats to give it a chance to dry (3:30 is getting late in the day to do thi