(Jane Jarratt)'s blog

Back in 2013 we bought a new to us Lagoon 380, which we named Matilda in Athens and spent two lovely summers cruising Greece, Italy and up to the Ballierics with a plan to slowly sail her back to Australia where we now live.  Unfortunately life had other plans and we ended up back in the UK where Andy spent the next 15 months getting chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant for Multiple Myeloma. Luckily for us both, the treatment was successful and he is currently in remission.  We have made it back to Australia slightly battered but unbeaten!

In order to supplement our “Oh No! The mast has fallen down” fund, we had to work for the Northern Hemisphere winter which, luckily, is the southern hemisphere summer so we headed back to Australia for our third summer in a row.   I had planned to get some nursing work in a rural/remote area of Western Australia where the pay is higher and where Andy could get some truck driving work.