As I write this, we are relaxing in Cartagena, a major port for tourists, commercial shipping and the Navy. It is also a lovely town, full of history with extensive Roman foundations, much of which have been excavated and are on display. Plenty of street life, too, and we have already enjoyed a couple of …
Today was fabulous – we’ve made it into the Mediterranean! Having waited in Cadiz for an Easterly storm to pass, we departed from Barbate early this morning hoping for fair winds rounding Tarifa and fair tides along the Gibraltar Strait. Our only other concern was that we might be attacked by Orcas. We had been …
We’re continuing to make our way southwest towards Gibraltar and stopped in two lovely, very Spanish resorts of Mazagon and Chipiona where the beach has the remains of ancient fish farm walls. In Mazagon, despite our lack of Spanish and indecipherable menus, we had fabulous fish tapas at a restaurant by a park overlooking the …
Today we departed from Portugal and sailed to Spain. We completed the mandatory Spanish Covid Health Document pre departure, declaring that we had been vaccinated and were free of Covid symptoms. We were delighted to then receive a QR code confirming that we were green. Armed with this and all our yacht paperwork we were …