Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
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Thank you. And sorry to miss you when you are here doing your day-skip. Would have loved to have met up. Have a ball, it's a breeze compare to the theory.....
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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@Giles I may have missed this elsewhere, but are you progressing on downsizing the main residence?
This trip sounds incredible. everything from sailing into new places and seeing historical beaches, all the way down to stopping at a pier side stand to grab grilled anchovy's or whatever little local shit you can bring back to the boat.
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@jordanscollected said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:
whatever little local shit you can bring back to the boat.
Mainly Oysters.
Sea Bass fishing along this coast is stupendous, so I'll be doing a lot of that.
We have the house on the market. We have had 5 viewings, but as each viewing came and went, and we listened to the comments the prospects had, Paula and I realised that we simply aren't going to find something as nice and as quiet locally, and frankly if we move away from Gosport, we probably couldn't afford it either. So it is still on the market atm, but we have asked that no special marketing is done to drum up interest whilst we are away. A move was going to cost us a lot, so we think we'd rather invest that money into keeping the big house going until it's time to properly downsize or die, whichever comes first.
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@Giles If you F'n die before selling the house I'm flying over for the estate sale. $7 IH shirts (you know how they do these estate clothes) in my size will be worth the travel cost.
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(Half the forum goes to the Meet the Crew thread to check @Giles measurements)
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@popvulture The other half has them memorized.
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@Alex in my head you were scuba diving and didn't get cell service to weigh in. a lot of things have to line up just right.
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@Alex said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:
@jordanscollected You think i'll sell his shirts for $7?
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@Giles We hope you have a great trip / adventure.
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I was just telling Katie yesterday how much I was looking forward to sitting in the patio at the back yard after party because I didn’t realize the house was actively being viewed. Maybe @Kasi can buy it and rent it back to you. On second thought his monthly rent might be more than a mortgage.
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Just noticed that this has been installed on our home berth. Feel quite grown-up...
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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@Giles …a little motivation: https://beaucettemarina.com/saltwater-restaurant/
The menu looks good
