About Us
Hi, we're Tim and Karina from Australia, via the UK, US, Greece, and most recently, Belgium. For four years, we were fun-employed boat bums living aboard our trawler, Matilda, which is now for sale. You can read more about Matilda here to see what we got up to.
Today, we're residents of Belgium, and we've started a new adventure. We purchased a historic barge constructed in 1907, and we're reinvigorating it as a hotel to run cruises in Belgium.
You might also find us at our apartment in Athens (also available for rent on Airbnb here).
We have two adult children living in Edinburgh and Tokyo. We love travel, adventure, good food, good company and lots of boutique coffee (if you enjoy the blog, feel free to shout us a coffee to say thanks!)
Tim has written a book, "Footloose: Or How to Run Away to Sea" about our journey and adventures on Matilda. You can find out more about it here.
Follow us @matildatheboat on Instagram, or message Tim on Facebook to say hi!
History of the blog
Why Insatiably Curious? Besides an excellent state to be in, this blog is a more formal expression of the inner five-year-old who always wants to ask, 'but why?'
It's been run in various forms over the last 20+ years, but this current iteration is a record of our journeys and travels since we moved to Greece, first aboard Matilda, and now on the inland waterways of Europe with our new (to us) barge.
But what about that article on "x" that led me here?
Tim has always blogged about significant life events as a way of both capturing his thoughts and memories and sharing his perspectives with family and friends.
While Karina was giving birth to our daughter (over 24 years ago!), he was busy trying to get the modem to work in the hospital delivery room to update the hand-coded HTML website to announce her arrival. That effort was quickly abandoned to focus on more important things!
Over the years, this blogging activity has had various names, been written on different platforms and focused on a variety of themes. The very earliest effort of tracking Karina's pregnancy has gone lost in the annals of history, but content from many other efforts has survived, spread liberally across the internet. What's never changed has been a sense of curiosity about the world around us and the experiences we've been going through.
You can find links to the older content and various chapters of the blog here.
The content about our life on Matilda has grown and become quite substantial. We enjoy being able to refer back to and share experiences with friends we meet ("Here's what we wrote up about being in Albania"). Unfortunately, it had outgrown the previous platform and desperately needed better organisation.
So here we are! We've migrated all the content we can find, collected it here, and spent some time organizing it for easier consumption.
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