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Guest Blog – Gran Canaria Holiday
Early start We (Frans and Lisetta) left our home in Winschoten in the north of the Netherlands early Monday morning, November 3rd, at 01.30, bound for Schiphol Airport. Once [...]
Canary Islands – Gran Canaria
After about a week at Lanzarote it was time to move on to our next island, Gran Canaria. Here, we had organised a date with my brother Frans and [...]
Canary Islands – Lanzarote
A 5-day passage takes a little time to recover from, you are in a bit of a jet lagged state from four hours on and four hours off and, [...]
Off to the Canary Islands
It is dark, we are north-east of Lanzarote and we are tired. We have slowed down Yuma to try and arrive at the Marine Lanzarote, in Arrecife, when their [...]
Crossing to Marseille
Our route from Enseñada sa Costera to the northern most tip of Mallorca the next day was again comprised of a long procession of dramatic, pale grey cliffs that [...]
Mallorca
Two days later, an eleven-hour sail had us across the passage between Ibiza and Mallorca, the main island in the Balearics, and arriving at the Cala d’Egos. Approaching [...]
Ibiza
None too early the next morning we slipped our mooring and ambled up the eastern coast of Ibiza, passing by the city of Ibiza itself before eventually anchoring under [...]
Off to Ibiza
Surprisingly, our very cunning plan of giving the easterly winds the slip near Gibraltar had worked and we were now far enough north of the strong easterly winds that [...]