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Sailors for Sustainability: Italian adventure 2017 -part 2

Our-route-from-Isola-di-San-Pietro-to-Crotone - sailors for sustainability

Welcome to the 4th meeting with Sailor for Sustainability! You can read who they are here! After visiting Portofino, Elba and Sardegna, our Sailor friends, Ivar and Floris headed towards their next exciting adventure to Sicily. They were impressed by both the warm temperatures of Southern Italy and the welcoming people offering them typical dishes like Arancini […]

Sailors for Sustainability: Italian adventure 2017

Welcome to the 3° meeting  with Sailor for Sustainability! You can read who they are here! This time I want to share the adventures and solutions Ivar and Floris discovered in Italy. I made this choice for 2 reasons: they just left Italy towards a different country and they celebrated 1 year of adventures this year. […]

Sailors for Sustainability: preparation year & solutions in NL

farewell party sailors for sustainability

Welcome to the Second appointment with Sailor for Sustainability! I started reading the  blog’s monthly archive and I was impressed to discover  how much preparation Floris & Ivar had to do in the last months before departure, including a medical course for sailors, sea survival training, practical meteorology for long-distance sailors and engine maintenance. That said I […]

A great initiative: Sailors for Sustainability

Sustainable-sailors-Floris-left-and-Ivar-right

Hello! Today I am very happy to announce a new collaboration and introduce you Floris and Ivar. The other day I spoken to Floris van Hees & Ivar Smits, the two guys behind sailors for sustainability, a beautiful initiative I want you to be aware of. On 13 June 2016 they left Amsterdam aboard their classic sailing […]

Skal International World Congress experience

Young skal at work, Skal International world congress

My experience at the Skal International World Congress (SIWC) was very interesting, I personally appreciated a lot being considered a member, but also an helper. It was very interesting to see how many details have to be organised for a conference that big. This was not my first experience in congress organisation , I already […]