Have you ever wondered what life is like on board a ship? This is a day of a normal family who decided to leave their life in the city to live on a boat.
04/19/2018
Today the alarm clock sounded at 7 o’clock. I will never forget what I feel when I go out to the ship’s cockpit when I wake up in the water, I look at the green of the Brazilian forest and I smell its exquisite nose smell. After a rich breakfast with fruits and cereals, nesquik, coffee and mate, we went to school by boat. Then we walked about 5 meters and arrived at the school. María Paz attends the Brazilian school Monseñor Pinto de Carvalho in the morning. It is a school that has 70 students. They have classes of capoeira with their teacher Jamaica (famous for their dreadlocks and for their healthy habits), their physical education classes are carried out among the paths drawn between the hills and study natural sciences discovering the names of the fruits they find on the way. But his main education is Argentina, he studies in the SEAD, the Argentine distance education system, I am his teacher in the afternoon.
After leaving it to our daughter at school, Jorge and I went shopping for Abraao with the boat, and when we returned, we anchored at Feticeira beach to generate new content for www.hostandboat.com. since there we have good internet connection. In the afternoon, after school, we sat together in the cockpit of the boat in this beautiful paradise called Saco do Ceu in Ilha Grande, Angra dos Reis. Pachi doing his homework from the Argentine school, Jor in the afternoon while I sketch in the notebook our next marketing actions for www.hostandboat.com
By chance, I found my travel diaries from our last sailing from Athens to Rio de Janeiro # atenas_to_rio2017. And I had a lot of nostalgia for our last beautiful trip. These are the two Days in which I fixed my eyes.
9/29/2017
Today we are moored in the Marina Sifredi Carloforte city on the Isola de San Pietro, the last piece of land between Cerdegna and the Balearic Islands. Exquisite shower in the Marina (ie abundant water) and very good connection to WiFi. Two accessories highly valued for those who live on board. Also the marina had a wasing machine and dryer! A luxury ! And the sweetest whatsapp call fromToto, trying to coordinate to see us. We do not know where or when. Will it be Brazil? Spain ? Argentina? The pride of seeing my grown son, good man of noble soul, with his deep and sincere generosity. Feelings of happiness and sadness.
9/30/2017
We start at the dawn of Marina Piccola, we do not know if Mallorca, Menorca, the wind will say. Pachi sleeps in the prow, Jorge and I have a delicious breakfast while we sail through the Mediterranean Sea, and Pedro, one of our crew on this leg, gets up for breakfast in his Ninja Turtle pajamas!
How exciting is life on board!
I never imagined before that life at sea could be so fun and clearly healthier than the almost perfect everyday life that I used to carry in the City: children I love with all my soul, school every morning, a nice car, a job that I was passionate about, the corporate world, vacations here and there, very dear friends ….
However, I missed something as important and valuable as life is at less speed, I missed Living! It was like driving down an avenue at 250 km / h: You do not see anything that happens outside your car because everything happens very fast, but you know that at any moment you can crash. Today, I can enjoy a rich breakfast in the middle of the week. I used to start the daily marathon with just two sips of tea in the kitchen and half tangerine, running as if competing for around the world in 72 hours, climbing my beloved stilettos, perfectly smoothed hair, hands of manicure, exquisite perfume . Today I walk barefoot, my curls came back on my head, I smell to Off and I no longer use both make up or nail polish. But I have time! Jorge, my love and admired captain, he had already taught me.
You are rich when you have time, not when you have money.
If you want to experience these beautiful sensations, do not hesitate to rent a boat with an experienced captain and knows the region so deeply that it will take you to know every little corner from the sea. Paradises from the sea.
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