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| Elegant Adriana at Pantelleria |
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| Claudio on Eleftheria ("Freedom" in Greek), enjoys a brisk breeze on the Med |
From Claudio, 5th Feb, and some corro in the comments:
Hi Peter,
How are you? Jing and John?
We are good and we are living in a small island in South Italy, Pantelleria, close to Africa.
If you wish you can see many photos of our property on Pantelleria. We finally own a boat, she is old but she is very good.
Is a Grand Soleil 35 and in the last three years we have cruised a lot around the Mediterranean Sea.
Now we are thinking to leave Pantelleria and go back to live in Veneto, we’ll put on sale and for rent our house in the Island.
We never forget your kindness in Hong Kong and hope to see you again sometime.
If your address is still this and we’ll get a reply, we’ll tell you more about us.
Cheers
Claudio & Adriana
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| Elephetheria, Grand Soleil 35, at Hammamet. |
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| Linosa Island |
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| Friendly dolphin frolics |
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| Adriana works the bow... |
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| San Vito lo Capo |
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| Hey... there are fish in the Med! Mangiamo adesso! Note Claudio's cool dolphin tat! |
Hi Claudi and Adriana, good to hear from you!
ReplyDeleteYour Island looks very lovely and congratulations on your new boat! The Grand Soleils are very nice boats.
Our new boat Xena an X-55 we’ve been sailing and racing around the region .... We’re doing the race to Subic in Philippines over Easter.
We have a Xena website and also a Blog. The Blog is here >> http://xenakingscup.blogspot.com/
The entry for 20th January has picture of me on a 117 year old Ketch, Rona, on the harbour, was a very nice day.
If you’re ever in Hong Kong, please come for a sail on Xena!
Cheers
Peter
From Claudio 19 Feb:
ReplyDeleteHi Peter,
what a wonderful boat Xena!
We are pleased to know that you are doing so nice and important sailing experience with your new boat.
We’ll follow your blog.
With our little boat we did a lot of sailing around the Mediterranean, from our Island Pantelleria we use to cruise to Malta (135 miles), Linosa Island and Lampedusa Island (85 miles), Egadi Islands ( 65 miles) and along Tunisian and Sicilian coasts. We cruised to Greece and Sardinia too.
Attached you will find some our photos.
A big hug to Jing and hope to meet you again sometime.
Good wind and safe sailing
Claudio
Hi Claudio,
ReplyDeleteThanks!
When I post the pictures of Eleftheria and you & Adriana, can I say that my sailing mates can contact you if they are ever in Italy? ... (the Blog is only for Xena crew and friends).
I have just updated the Blog with some news of some of our Xena crewmates in New Zealand at the Bay of Islands regatta on a Robinson-55 Bare Essentials.
Piccies of you guys will be next.
Ciao
Peter
PS: do you have any other pictures of Eleftheria?
From Claudio, 20 Feb:
ReplyDeleteHi Peter,
I’ll send you more photos of Eleftheria (in Greak language mean freedom).
Yes, we’ll happy to help your friends.
If neaded we can provide to stay in a “dammuso” (tipical stone house in Pantelleria) and arrange cruises with our boat or charter boats.
If you wish you can put our web site www.dammusoapantelleria.it
Ciao
Claudio