Taking a Sabbatical from Our Sabbatical

Slano, Croatia

October, 2017

It has been a long time since I updated this blog and much has changed since then. You may have noticed the changed header of this blog. 

Over seven years ago we left Canada and have spent most of that time in the Med. We have loved every minute of it and still haven't seen everything, so we can't bear to leave it yet. Unfortunately, due to political circumstances we are currently unwilling to travel to some of those areas. We hope that will change for the better, but in the meantime we are going to put down some roots.

As much as we absolutely loved living in Italy, we felt it was time to move on. We chose Croatia because of its natural beauty and excellent cruising grounds and because I have citizenship, so establishing permanent residence here is a snap. We have signed an annual contract in the ACI Slano marina, (

Click to See) which is at the head of a beautiful bay 30 km north of Dubrovnik.

The prospects for engaging in some money-making enterprise look great. I am near to closing on something, but it is too early to report. Anything related to tourism and yachts is booming. All the marinas are full, or nearly so, and are more expensive than the places we have wintered in Italy. I will let you know what wintering is like here; eventhough I am certain it won't be as pleasant as southern Italy.

The plan now, as far as plans go, is to spend some time here, make some money, buy a house(?), see more of Europe, and wait for some of the turmol in in the world to subside.

Branko