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vacation works for me

cape verde pic sbtextHad a lovely time during my Cape Verde vacation. So much so that I wrote an article about it for Yacht Vision Magazine. During my trip I visited the isles of Sante Antao and Sao Vicente. These are lovely places to go hiking, but there are some great sailing waters out there too! Writing this article brought on two great challenges.

The article had a 1600 words maximum and I could write a book about the place and in addition to this I had about a gazillion pictures that I had to choose from. Writing means killing your darlings. Apparently, the same thing goes for choosing your pics.