Life is good. We are back from a fabulous and much needed five days at the Coral Reef Club in Barbados (thank you Patrick O'Hara for looking after us so well) and Robert 'Bertie' Portal is home and dry with a smile as broad as the Atlantic Ocean...
2 Comments | Posted 7 February 2012 | g:i A
They've done it! They crossed the line at around midnight Bajan time, 7 Feb 2011. What a day it's going to be and it has started very early for me. I woke at 4am to a massive tropical storm and am still wide awake, knowing it's not time to get...
0 Comments | Posted 25 January 2012 | g:i A
The position I am in as Bert and James row across the Atlantic is pretty unique and emotions roll in like waves; some bigger than others and bringing with them the flotsam and jetsam of feelings, thoughts and fears. Not one single day has been like another during their crossing...
2 Comments | Posted 21 January 2012 | g:i A
More good news in this week as Robert 'Bertie' Portal and James Cash have now less than 1,000nms to row. It's strange how we all talk about them only having xxx miles further to row, as if they've just popped out for an afternoon's jolly on a river, picnic hamper...
1 Comments | Posted 17 January 2012 | g:i A
There is something very romantic about saying goodbye to the man you love whilst you stand on the shore and watch him disappear off into the horizon. I could have almost been mistaken for being the French Lieutenant's Woman had I not had a ferry to catch to Tenerife with...
7 Comments | Posted 12 January 2012 | g:i A
I remember the time when my partner, actor Robert Portal, aka Bertie, told me he was planning to row the Atlantic for charity. How could I forget? It was our first date and to be honest, although I was suitably impressed, I was more concerned with fluttering my eyelashes at...
0 Comments | Posted 9 March 2012 | g:i A