http://www.simpaticasail.com The Casares around the world Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:52:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two years and nine months after leaving Miami on our 47 foot catamaran Simpatica, we're back. Older, and hopefully wiser, we sailed into the Miami Beach Marina February 26th 2007, Wence's 33rd birthday. My God. We did it. We sailed around the world. The past few weeks we have been flooded ... http://www.simpaticasail.com/2007/02/26/circumnavigation-complete/ I misplaced my journal which had my notes on Egypt, India, and Israel so I apologize in advance for the lack of details. Israel is the kind of place most people would like to visit, if it weren’t Israel. It’s the womb for Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. You can walk the ... http://www.simpaticasail.com/2006/05/15/israel/ Liz, Dio, Teo, and I flew to Egypt from India. Having heard how dangerous, unpleasant and long the journeys up the Red Sea can be, I opted out. So while Wence, David, Ricardo, and Crhistian, an old friend of Wence’s from Esquel, were vomiting their way up the Red Sea, ... http://www.simpaticasail.com/2006/04/15/egypt/ Unfortunately I misplaced my journal which had notes for India, Egypt, Israel. Now it is months later and I can’t remember very much, but here are some of the moments that I remember. Our trip to India was comprised of two parts. The first week we traveled with Wence’s business partners ... http://www.simpaticasail.com/2006/03/05/india/ I have to admit, I was a bit anxious about arriving in Oman. Sandwiched between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, Oman lies across the water from Iran, smack dab in the middle of the Muslim world. I could not imagine why they would welcome us into their country. We decided to ... http://www.simpaticasail.com/2006/02/10/oman/ We really liked Sri Lanka, but when the time came, we were also ready to leave. The harbor where you HAVE to stay, no anchoring out allowed in civil war Sri Lanka, is a strange place. Aside from the cement dispensary that shook dust onto our boat and into our ... http://www.simpaticasail.com/2006/01/15/sri-lanka/ We arrived at the Royal Phuket Marina on November 11th. The Royal Phuket Marina will be a beautiful marina…some day. But right now it’s a construction sight with promise. When we arrived we saw a dozen people running to help us which seemed a little too good to be true. ... http://www.simpaticasail.com/2005/11/09/thailand/ We arrived in Langkawie, Malaysia October 15th. The first couple of days we stayed at the Telaga Harbour marina. Even though it looks beautiful from the water, we soon realized it was a bit far away from everything. It also had this strange pseudo European vibe going that we were ... http://www.simpaticasail.com/2005/10/17/malaysia/ We arrived in Singapore on September 15th. It did not take long to realize we were not in Indonesia any more. The marina, Raffles marina, was larger than many of the towns we had been visiting. We were all very relieved to know it had a pool. It was more ... http://www.simpaticasail.com/2005/09/17/singapore/ Wence was ready to leave Bali. To be honest, I could have stayed another week or two, exploring Ubud, but Wence said he had a weird feeling and wanted to leave. Since this is not like wence, I let it be. Why keep him there any longer than he feels ... http://www.simpaticasail.com/2005/09/10/passage-from-bali-to-singapore/