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When your sailboat is your home and cruising your lifestyle, you have to be flexible. Whether it is about grocery shopping, sightseeing, your destination for the night, customs of the country, food to eat, company to hang out with, celebrations to be had, or … your own wedding!

                                                                                                                                    © Liesbet Collaert

To tell you a little bit more about this oh-so-important life event of Mark and me, it gets a little personal and starts back in time. I might not be the “typical” woman (I don’t wear make-up nor jewelry, don’t care too much about my looks or daily shower and know none of the celebrities), but there is and was one thing I really hoped to have one day: a relatively normal wedding, romantic and out of love...

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On the water, the years go by in the same way they do on land. The pace might be a bit different and the seasons are less prominent, but New Year comes and goes and so do birthdays and other events. Although they basically are days like any other day, we cruisers attempt to make them stand out just a bit. On New Year’s Eve we try to stay up until midnight (only successful when we have friends around and we “stick it out” together), over Christmas we eat even better and more than normally (see a previous XWaters blog) and birthdays are celebrated with gifts and a special dinner.

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