This site currently has three sections, shown in the top right corner of the page, wherever you are on the site: The 2009-11 section will eventually contain all our posts from the original SnailTrails around-(some of)-the-world tour. Project Sail documents our adventures on the water. And the Sahel link – you guessed it – brings you to posts on Senegal and surroundings. If you click on one of these links, the site will show only posts from that section, in…
Greetings from Dakar, Senegal ! A new adventure has begun with our arrival in Dakar, Senegal a little over a week ago! A bit of housekeeping first: updates on our West African experiences will be posted into the “Sahel” section of the site (you can find the link here and in the top right of the page). For privacy and security reasons, some posts will be password-protected. In the meantime, we’re exploring the city of Dakar, located on the most Western…
Or: SnailTrails – reborn! Or rather: SnailTrails – the awakening! Because, in fact, the snails never really left our lives, were never really gone. Just maybe a little asleep for a while… The awakening serves two concrete purposes: this blog will first of all make accessible again the contents of the SnailTrails website that documented our 2009-2011 adventure criss-crossing the Americas and Africa aboard Archie, our modified Land-Rover Defender. People have asked us where they can access all the posts…
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It was time for a break earned after a full-throttle beginning of the year, and so we took a nightly flight with Royal Air Maroc to Casablanca, followed by a two and a half hour limo ride to Marrakech. There is a train from Casa to Marrakech (soon to be a high-speed one), and a flight connection as well, but when you arrive as a zombie in Casa, the limo was the comfiest and fastest option. We woke up on…
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The SnailTrails team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2023! Remember the motto: one life – live it! That’s what we’re planning on doing, and so should you!
When friends call and offer a spot on a sailboat during your vacations, you don’t hesitate! Flights were booked and off I went to Valencia, Spain to meet Declan and two of his friends at the 2007 Americas Cup docks. Blue Juice, a Beneteau First, was going to get us across to Palma de Majorca! These boats combine very good sailing characteristics (especially with the top-notch sails) with comfortable cruising capability – the reason why our former sailing club in…
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As I’m writing this, we sit under a palapa (roof made of palm tree leaves) to protect the computers from the tropical downpour in the jungle surrounding the Mayan ruins of Palenque in Chiapas. The howler monkeys seem to have taken refuge somewhere as well, we can’t hear their Jurassic Park – style utterings any more. Typically for the Snailtrails team, we didn’t take the straight route from Oaxaca, where we spend a week-end witnessing the “Dia de los Muertos”…
The days when the dead return… We spend the weekend of November 1 and 2 in the lovely city of Oaxaca (Oaxaca) where we take part in the celebration of the most important and at the same time most macabre ‘fiesta’ in Mexico: the ‘Days of the Death’ (Dias de los Muertos)… According to an old Indian legend the death is not the end of human life – but transfers the spirit to a parallel world. From there the deceased…