We had another huge dump of snow just over a week ago, and this has been followed by clear skies allowing us to venture further off piste. Last Monday the avalanche risk was high at 4/5 so we decided to play safe and stay in resort. Incredible – we had yet another unexpectedly amazing day …
Having left Merryn safely in a boat yard in Arbatax, Sardinia we spent a few weeks back in England seeing friends and family. We drove across France just over a week ago, having a lovely break in Troyes where we enjoyed our first French meal at Aux Crieurs du Vins – black pudding, smoked duck …
Can’t believe that the wonderful summer is coming to an end. We’ve spent the last two weeks as land lubbers, initially seeing the boat lifted safely ashore, and then exploring the wonderful mountainous regions of the Gennargentu National Park, Barbagia and the Supramonte. The days are shorter but still sunny and it’s decidedly chilly in …
Sardinia continues to stun us with its magnificent terrain and is certainly living up to its reputation of the ‘windy island’. The wind is steadily blowing at 30 knots as I write this, sitting or bouncing around the boat in Arbatax Marina. We are in the midst of a mistral that started yesterday afternoon with …
Sardinia is fabulous and we love it here. We left Mahon, Menorca at first light on 4th September and arrived in Portoscuso, on the south west tip of Sardinia, on the afternoon of the next day – 195 nautical miles in 31 hours. It was a fabulous crossing in fairly calm seas with a spectacular …
We’ve now made our way from Mallorca over to Menorca, having had a lovely week touring Mallorca’s southern and eastern coasts. We spent two nights at anchor in Cala Ponsa on the south western tip, hoping for shelter from some strong northerlies. This was a really pretty spot nestled between the cliffs but the wind …
We’re sitting at anchor in Cala de Santa Ponsa on the south eastern tip of Mallorca and we’ve just had a fabulous week in Palma, the capital. We booked into the Marina, initially for a few days in order to get some work done on the boat, but extended our time there, partly to get …
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 …