Caribbean Archives

Rodriguez

ByKasia 21/08/202325/09/2023

Rodriguez, legendary songwriter, musician, poet. If you want to know how he landed in my life? Have a read!

I was cleaning my Spotify the other day. Listening to the old playlists took me back to the music quizzes we had during covid lockdowns, and basically all along the covid year. The world stopped, but in that insanity, we managed to find little pleasures. One of them was the Friday night music quiz held…

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Farewell Martinique

ByKasia 26/05/202107/09/2023

We made it! We finally have left Martinique. It took us only… a year! Very strange feeling, very strange… especially now that I look at it from another island, just 250 Nm away. It was so easy to leave, yet so hard! It’s like our friend Andrew said: “This (Martinique) is the best place to…

blog | BOAT LIFE | in English

Dark side of the boat life

ByKasia 02/12/202007/09/2023

Let me tell you something. This life we live now, it ain’t always beach, drinks and reggae music. For starters, we are not really beach-type of people. Second of all, drinks are way too time-consuming to prepare, so we take it straight, beer, wine, or rum, you name it. As for reggae music…. Well… The…

blog | BOAT LIFE | in English

Dengue – because covid is not enough

ByKasia 06/10/202007/09/2023

Last year I was walking down the streets of Port of Spain in Trinidad. Quite a nice neighborhood… Bay Road, West Main, Bengal Street, Finland… and out of a sudden – BAM! Dengue street*! No kidding! Was it like a warning sign? Or maybe I missed Zika Street, followed by Chikungunya Road, across the Yellow…

blog | BOAT LIFE | in English

This eFFin’ Corona

ByKasia 21/06/202007/09/2023

I thought this Corona madness would not affect us that much… well, I was wrong. It was almost like a normal life. Like on those silly memes on the life of the sailor before-, and in the times of corona. Not much of a change 🙂 Soon, I started to realize that some things were taken…

blog | in English | TRAVEL

Windward, Carriacou

ByKasia 11/04/202007/09/2023

Windward, Carriacou – where music meets shipbuilding Once upon a time, there was a guy from Poland, who had a dream to visit Windward in Carriacou, and to learn there how to build wooden boats traditional way. We took him with us from Martinique down south. We never made it together there, but he totally…

blog | in English | SAILING

Sailing thriller

ByKasia 22/07/201907/09/2023

Sailing thriller – sometimes sh*^% happens… oh… Sorry, but before we go to Tobago, we just have to tell you about the sailing. Boy, that was a hell of an adventure! Vincent had been excited already for few days about this passage. Ocean sailing is a feast! Whales, dolphins… we eat, we sing, we read…

blog | boat | BOAT LIFE | in English | TRAVEL

Carriacou

ByKasia 14/07/201907/09/2023

Carriacou – one week on the hard Carriacou is the seventh star on Grenada’s flag. The name means surrounded by many reefs. What we learned later, it was also smugglers island. Pssst… still is and the vibe is pretty much there. As you can imagine, we loved it from the very first day 🙂