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 …
After a chilly, and sometimes rainy, stay in Cascais we made our passage plan to head south to Sines. We woke at 7am ready to head off only to be greeted by high winds, a grey sky and heavy rain so went back to bed! The next day was similar but we agreed we had …
Hurrah! Our dreams of sailing to the Mediterranean may soon become reality! We returned to Cornwall towards the end of April and kept ourselves busy during our quarantine by scrubbing the boat and putting up the sails and running rigging. On our joyous release from isolation the winds picked up…and up. We spent most of …
This is our last post from the mountains for this winter season and happily it has ended on a high as we spent two fabulous days touring the mountains with our guide Pierre. We had an early start on Thursday morning, somewhat hampered by the fact that it was so cold that my skins would …
We have been incredibly lucky to have warm weather and spring snow conditions so have been making the most of this whilst we can. After our long tour to Col Pers, we headed to Tignes the following day, again with Chris and Suzanne. We walked from the main resort of Tignes le Lac, initially up …
Another long delay between blog entries and so much has happened! As we entered the New Year we decided to head back to our home in France as the prospect of remaining on the boat in Falmouth throughout the winter was not enticing. We were glued to the news of travel embargoes from the UK …
Well, we haven’t posted for a while so time for the last few words of the year. 2020 has been a little unpredictable and certainly not ideal for the first year of retirement. Our plans, to spend the winter skiing and the summer sailing to the Mediterranean, have been turned on their head. We had …