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The written adventure

Follow our long adventure with the posts below. Let us know what you think by posting a comment – you can also subscribe to notifications when we publish an update.

Also check out the Brookes’ Big Boat Trip Bucket Blog to see only the posts relating to our smaller adventures we want to do while we are on our trip.

Starry starry night 25th February 2020 - It’s 0106 on a Monday morning. We are crossing from St Maarten to the BVI’s. The sea is butter flat,
Half term holidays 19th February 2020 - What?!? I hear you say, a holiday from a holiday, how ridiculous. In all honesty, it’s not. With the arrival
Everyting Irie… 24th January 2020 - …as they say in the Islands…. it means ‘Everything’s alright’. I love that saying because it sums up the attitude
Adventure Caribbean 16th January 2020 - Its been a great first month back in the Caribbean. We’ve been getting tropical and embracing the lush interiors of
Merry Christmas 30th December 2019 - After a pretty brutal 24hr sail north from St Lucia we arrived in Antigua. Sophie steered the boat across the

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    The big push…

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    The old and the new

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    And we’re off…

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