[Kyle]After spending 19 days away from my beloved wife and my beloved home, mostly at work but some time with family and friends, I returne...

[Kyle]It Looks like Maryanne has dusted off her Marine Biology degree. Well, unlike my lovely wife, I am experiencing the full brunt of W...

[Maryanne]I've been "home alone" now since before Christmas and although very much missing Kyle, I am relaxed and comfortable...

[Maryanne]I've never been much of a party goer and much prefer small groups to huge crowds. This year had Kyle busy at work in the USA ...

[Kyle]We got up with the sun and as we prepared Footprint to leave Deshaies we noticed all the other boats in the anchorage leaving rapidly ...

[Kyle]The next day (Thursday) we only had one thing on our agenda (aside from sailing back to Deshaies): Take a bath! Now of course we don...

[Kyle]Today (17th December), I forced Maryanne to get up really early so we could go to the boulangerie/pâtisserie Amandine in Deshaies (rem...

[Kyle]Fully recovered from yesterday's scramble up the Deshaies river, our next tourist goal was the Botanical Gardens, just a mile ...

Scenes from Deshaies [Kyle]Our first order of business was to clear customs; all sources of information alerted us to the fact that cus...

[Kyle]After spending a couple of weeks at a work, in the winter wasteland that is the NE USA currently, I arrived home, cleared customs, t...

[Maryanne]Shhh... Don't tell Kyle, but while he has been busy working hard and earning a living, I've been pretty lazy and loafing ...

[Kyle]After a trip in which I got to spend the night in the snow in Detroit (Ooooh, Detroit!) and Moncton, New Brunswick, I did get to go to...