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Hi, we’re Colin and Ailsa Burn-Murdoch, AKA SV Mirounga Leonina, or Mirounga for short. Is this the beginning? Is it just before? Or are we well in to our journey? Only time will tell. Where are we now? At the moment, we are exactly 6 weeks from leaving the UK to meet Mirounga, our 1997 […]

I spent my small years in Gower in South Wales, and spent a lot of time right next to the beach. I don’t think I realised what a privilege that was when I was there, but to be fair, we left when I was 11. My teenage years were spent in Glasgow, where I mostly […]

I always say that the easiest way to say it is “Ale-sa”.

Well, it’s not if you have a Scottish accent, it’s not that simple, which has always been a conundrum for me.