Goodbye beautiful Bonaire. We weren't expecting anything as wonderful and beautiful as what we have had the pleasure to experience here these past eight days. Bonaire now belongs to one of our favorite Caribbean destinations, for many reasons which I will tell you all about one of these days.

We're setting sail towards Curacao this morning, and as soon as a good weather window appears, we'll sail the three days it'll take to get to Cartagena. It's a passage that is notorious for strong winds and high seas, there's regularly gale force winds between Barranquilla and Cartagena, and those are what we gladly would like to avoid. Had enough of 30+ winds on our passage to Bonaire which I also will tell you all about soon I promise. 

Before Colombia, we will also pick up our friend Michael in Aruba, who returns to the boat from his short visit back home in cold and snowy Boston. Has been a pleasure to have him onboard and he obviously seem to think so too as he will be staying with us for another couple weeks. Nice!

Hasta luego amigos, I hope you all have a lovely beginning to the new week.

Lazy mornings - Snorkel right off the terrace - Burning skin and mesmerizing sunsets 

Healthy food homemade in elegant roomy kitchen - Wine, wine, wine

Reading books - Planning on next adventure

Two arm lengths long iguanas sunbathing on thatched roofs

Rum cocktails -  Brilliant views - Palm trees and coconuts - Fruit platter in mind blowing colors

and .... more long lazy mornings.

It's an understatement to say that we had an amazing time in the beautiful Karibuni villa, designed by Piet Boon - one of the Netherlands most interesting and best known interior designers. It is always a true pleasure to enter a room, home or a house where careful thoughts have been widely distributed on the total product, that there is a soul behind the sleek and polished surface. Piet Boon has designed twelve villas in various sizes here on Bonaire and many more houses and apartments worldwide. Our particular villa which is one of the larger ones on this island was probably a tad bit too big for just the two of us. But we still managed to make use of it the best we could, and changed bedrooms once, only to quickly return to the one which was located right next to the pool on the ground-floor - perfectly positioned in front of the early sunrise above that sparkling blue sea. Besides sailing on the open sea, I can't think of a better way to wind down and disconnect from it all than spending some slow time in such fine and peaceful environments.

Click here if you're interested in renting the same place, which would be an absolutely perfect vacation house for a group of good friends. Or here if you're curious about the other villas Piet Boon offers in Bonaire.

Many thanks to Piet Boon for being able to organize so efficiently and on such a short notice!

After five days in a tranquil and stunning environment of a private villa, we are now back home on our boat in Harbour Village Marina. We have a few days of work before us before we can leave again. Image editing and sending to different locations. Boat preparing and looking into the engine problem we have. And then hopefully we shall be off towards Colombia again. We were not originally planning on staying here on Bonaire more than a night or so but since our engine broke down, we figured why not stay here and make the best out of it and so we did. It has been like a real vacation for us, staying in that beautiful Piet Boon villa for almost a week, as well as visiting every part of this special little island. I have around 1000 images that I need to sort out and when that's done I'll share the best moments from Bonaire with you.