Tales of Tails & Travels

About

I (Toni) am a vet, dog mum and wife who loves to travel and eat good food. On here I will be sharing pictures from our recent travels, updates on our yacht Skinny and maybe the odd anecdote of what it is like being a locum vet.

  • Paint me like one of your French girls

    The SunFizz 40 is a french sailboat designed by Philippe Briand and built by Jeanneau in the early 1980s. Ours was built in 1981 and initially owned by a Glaswegian investment banker, then a racing club in the Isle of Wight and lastly bought by the owner before us in 1995. We could tell that…

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  • 78 degrees North

    At the beginning of this month we travelled to one of the worlds northernmost inhabited places, Longyearbyen, an arctic town found in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. Our aim when travelling is to soak it all in, learn something about the place, take afternoon naps and for me personally; enjoy documenting the place with my…

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  • Introductions

    For an initial post I did think to tell you about our most recent trip away to Svalbard (a Norwegian archipelago in the arctic circle)- but that can wait for another day. Instead, let me introduce why I’m here- which is basically to have a spot to write up about our travels, share some (many)…

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