Author: Wining with Mel

Translator by day, avid wine drinker by night! Mel is a certified sommelier and translator with a chronic case of the travel bug. She most recently spent the winter months sailing in the Caribbean. Be sure to subscribe to Wining with Mel to follow along and learn more about all the fun wines available out there!
Sunset over Carribean Sea

Happy 2022!

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Happy New Year, friends! When we left off in November, we were in Grenada, slowly getting back into the swing of liveaboard life. Mel continued to be a translation machine from the boat, and we worked through the never-ending list of boat jobs, including: * replacing our house batteries after frying one of them due [...]

WE’RE BACK! Grenada boat life: Week 1

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We’re back in the Caribbean and it feels so good! [New here? Check out our backstory] On November 10, we flew down to Grenada. As usual, the week leading up to our departure was crazy getting the house ready to run as an AirBnb in our absence, then driving down to southern Ontario for David’s [...]

BVI finale

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Back in February, when coronavirus was barely a blip on the radar, we were still in the BVIs, after finally making our annual escape from SXM. We love St. Martin but it seems to have a magnetic pull that keeps us from exploring further afield, so when we finally leave we wonder what the heck [...]