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HARALD was born in Kristiansand, Norway in the 1950s and was brought up in Bømlo, on the west coast of Norway. He went to sea at a very young age and became a skipper on coastal and North Sea trade at the age of 27. From there he became a Master Mariner on chemical tankers world wide. During these years he also worked as a coastal pilot for 5 years, stationed in Honningsvåg, North Cape.
After 40 years of working on ships, he brought Heidi to Hamburg and ended his long career at one of the world's biggest ship management companies. After 10 years in Germany it was time to retire and move back to Spain. Finca Itaca became a reality in 2017 and when he is not working as a farmer shovelling dirt or planting trees, he spends his time as a skipper sailing Tealie or walking Moity, Max and Milo around the beautiful mountains of Sierra de las Nieves.
A perfect life for a restless soul. At the time of writing he is the proud father of five and grandfather to eleven, and still counting.
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HEIDI was brought up in South Africa in the early 1970s and was moved to Evje, in the south of Norway at the age of nine. After graduating she started working as an IT consultant at various companies in Oslo, Norway, and spent three of her holidays traveling around the world as a backpacker. When time was right she left for Brazil and ended up in México City.
After 13 months in this bustling capital she landed in Fuengirola, Spain, where she founded zoneazul, an IT company. This is where she stumbled upon Harald as her first client and eventually married him in 2007, at the Norwegian Seamen's Church in Calahonda, Spain. Harald invited her to go sailing on M/T Kihuland with him as a Captain and who wouldn't want to sit at the Captain's table every evening? After two trips and a total of 14 months traveling around the world aboard this beautiful ship she also ended up in Hamburg and her life blended in with Harald's. Another perfect life for another restless soul.
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