Tag: St Helena
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Catching up with S/V Trinity (bonus episode)
We catch up with the crew of S/V Trinity in Cabedelo, Brazil before they head North and we head South. We chat a bout our respective experiences in sailing from Str Helena to Brazil as well as things that can and did go wrong.
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Internet on St Helena, it’s a challenge
Getting on the internet in St Helena is expensive and slow so better stay offline as much as possible.
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25. Goodbye St Helena (for now)
We are leaving St Helena after a bit more than three months. We enjoyed our time here and are sure we will be back. This episode we reminisce about what make this island such a special place.
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24b. Limbo no more, what is next for Tropical Dawn?
We won’t be flying back to South Africa today, we explain what will happen in today’s bonus episode.
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24. In limbo, what’s going to happen next?
A very short podcast episode today as we are still in limbo wether we can fly back to South Africa with Coco or not. We’ll post updates as soon we know more.
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23. Is Cape Town the worst place to start cruising?
An update as to what is happening with us in St Helena and our plans to fly back to Cape Town. We also elaborate on our reasons for taking a break from cruising and why Cape Town might be the worst place to get started cruising.
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21. Dark side of St Helena
This week we touch on some of the underbelly stuff that we have learnt over the time that we have been here. There is no perfect place in the world, all countries have their issues and St Helena is no different.
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19. Life on St Helena (continued)
This week we talk about Coco’s play date with Pepe, our freedive course, waking up at night in fear of running aground (don’t worry, everything was fine), yachts leaving and arriving, watching Hornblower and Dirty Dancing, and more.
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It’s been a while
We have not been posting on our blog since we left Walvis Bay over a month ago. That is mostly because the internet here on St Helena island is very slow, unreliable, and expensive. We’ll write a post about that (the dodgy internet on the island) and about some other challenges we’ve encountered here so…
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