We are both extremely excited. Tomorrow at 0600 we finally depart after 12 years of planning. Miggy was on Radio Solent this morning telling Julian Clegg and the 'world' where we are going and about last minute preparations. Her next broadcast is at 0645 BST on the 23rd May - so listen in. 
We have had our family to stay with us, take us out to lunch and otherwise say 'au revoir'. We keep telling them that we are within a half day flight of getting back to the UK and that we can communicate at any time by text, phone or email. It is sad however even to say 'au revoir'.
We had a great party on Friday evening last at the Royal Lymington Yacht Club where we invited 48 of our friends to celebrate Neal's 6oth birthday and toast our voyage. Kind words were said by many dear friends and very generous gifts were given which included loads of cash from family, a Navionics Platinum electronic chart, an MP3 player, a digital recorder and many other wonderful and useful items including, of course, a bottle of Bubbly.
Thanks to all family and friends who have been so kind to us. Chef, Peter, cooked a superb dinner praised by the entire company present. Mark, John and the staff were all brilliant and we thank them sincerely for a great send off. 
We are now about to load the final bits of gear on the yacht, take the hire car back and then clean the house ready for our visitors.
We will post our French mobile number on this site as soon as possible. In the meantime we wish you all well and look forward to seeing family and friends either on Bella in sunnier climes or back in UK early next year.
We have had our family to stay with us, take us out to lunch and otherwise say 'au revoir'. We keep telling them that we are within a half day flight of getting back to the UK and that we can communicate at any time by text, phone or email. It is sad however even to say 'au revoir'.
We had a great party on Friday evening last at the Royal Lymington Yacht Club where we invited 48 of our friends to celebrate Neal's 6oth birthday and toast our voyage. Kind words were said by many dear friends and very generous gifts were given which included loads of cash from family, a Navionics Platinum electronic chart, an MP3 player, a digital recorder and many other wonderful and useful items including, of course, a bottle of Bubbly.
Thanks to all family and friends who have been so kind to us. Chef, Peter, cooked a superb dinner praised by the entire company present. Mark, John and the staff were all brilliant and we thank them sincerely for a great send off. We are now about to load the final bits of gear on the yacht, take the hire car back and then clean the house ready for our visitors.
We will post our French mobile number on this site as soon as possible. In the meantime we wish you all well and look forward to seeing family and friends either on Bella in sunnier climes or back in UK early next year.
2 comments:
Bon Voyage!
We love you and are watching your progress carefully.
Susie, Johnny, Seb, Kate, Beth, Alex, Tim and Daisy + Barney
Have fun. Thinking of you both - not really green with envy! Look forward to your regular logs. Take care
Love
Lorri, Jim, Jo and Hayley x
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