They dreamed of escaping the rat race and cruising the world; in their late forties they made it a reality.
In 1987, after their children had grown up and left home, Brian and Adela Thompson threw caution to the wind.
Retiring from full-time work, they sold their idyllic seventeenth-century cottage and downsized to a 'Tupperware semi'.
In return, the wind took them across canals, rivers and seas, to lakes and lands afar in their 25-foot cruising yacht Kiebitz .
Mr.brian Thompson Take wing to the baltic: cruising notes: uk to copenhagen via the netherlands & germany, paperback/brian thompson
