Vilamoura in Portugal is for those looking for an exclusive holiday resort, with five-star hotels and luxury yachts. We have now left Albufeira and headed east in Portugal. Our first stop was in Vilamoura, near Quarteira, where we went down to the marina and the beach.
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There is always something happening in the marina! A few days ago we could watch a lifeboat exercise from our window, you know with those lifeboats on big boats. They threw the lifeboat upside down and turned it in the water. It's good to see that these things are practised!
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Then it was time to lift the catamaran down from the roof of the motorhome ... After various discussions back and forth, we decided to ask if we could get help in a high boathouse, where there was a winch. No problem!
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Mechelinki has been a sleepy little fishing village on the Polish Baltic coast. Not far away are holiday resorts like Rewa, Hel and Sopot, but almost no tourists have found their way to Mechelinki... yet. But that may be about to change. With the help of EU funding, the village has been able to build a pier on the water, and restaurants and hotels are starting to spring up.
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We didn't only manage to put the roof and hang out at KS Akuten yesterday. We also managed to load up our friends' catamaran on the motorhome roof. They have bought a small holiday apartment in Poland, on the beautiful Polish Baltic Sea coast. Now they have bought a catamaran, a Hobie Cat, which they want to transport down to Poland. So we decided to load it on the camper van roof and go down to Poland together in September.
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Ever since we moved here, definitions of floating accommodation have been discussed. Who lives in a houseboat and who lives in a floating villa? When is a ship a boat and when is it a ship? It's a jungle and not at all easy to sort out. But here are some basic definitions, as we understand them.
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The other night we woke up to find the bilge pump running. When water enters the hull, it starts automatically and pumps the water out through a pipe. However, the last splash of water flows back through the pipe because the slope is quite strong, and so the pump starts again ...
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When you are on holiday, it is often nice to take a boat trip. The water is fresh, and you get a different view when you look inland. Or maybe you get the chance to see some new islands or places. Here are some boat trips we remember...
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Today it was a boat trip to Manila from Boracay. We started with a small boat from Boracay to Panay, and from there it was a ferry. The ferry from Caticlan on Panay to Batangas on Luzon was nicer and less worn than the one we travelled with last time. It felt good, as there was a lot of wind on the sea.
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Now we have travelled from Mindoro to Boracay in the Philippines. We were picked up by car at 08:00 outside the hotel in Sabang and travelled across almost all of Mindoro, to Roxas. All the way we drove through dense, lush rainforest and everywhere we saw people who live completely different lives than us. Just before the ferry was due to depart, we arrived.
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