June 09 - June 22, 2020; 2947 nm and 459 days after departure from La Rochelle Unbelievable, but we eventually managed to escape from our dear lockdown home Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Finally saying goodbye to all the nice people we met and having a last coffee at the Sailors bar, a last washing …
30 boats at anchor in the little bay next to the marina, what a change!The British couple Emily and Dan from the platform next door, enjoying a platform beerthe football TVand the crowd watching and eatingHugo is helping Norbert getting the solar panels to Sunny the sailmaker who's also welding aluminiumchaos in the salon just …
May 24 - June 08 , 2020; 2899 nm and 445 days after departure from La Rochelle Life feels so good! Busy city, busy streets, crowded beaches and noisy construction sites! Who would have thought that we'd be happy about such (usually annoying) circumstances? Definitely nobody and yet we enjoy it! Let's see for how …
some explanation chartsof the loosening rules las Canteras beach after having a coffee; a few people dare top go out againdinner at the terrace of a restaurant, which was allowed to open a huge tuna at the market (catch of the day 🙂 )I treated myself with a bunch of flowers 😁 Philippe and Pascal, …
May 08 - May 24, 2020; 2899 nm and 430 days after departure from La Rochelle YES! On Monday we had our first cappuccino since the lockdown started - 56 days cappuccinailed! Such a great feeling sitting in a cafe and being allowed to enjoy a nice coffee and seeing other people walk by. It …
April 24 - May 07, 2020; 2899 nm and 413 days after departure from La Rochelle OMG! Just two hours after our last blog entry our hopes of being allowed to have a little freedom were again destroyed. The complicated 4-phase proposal of the Canary government (with suggestions like e.g. people living in even house …
April 09 - April 23, 2020; 2899 nm and 399 days after departure from La Rochelle Our last weekend was one of the saddest in a very long time. Last Thursday we got the sorrowful news that Norbert's mother was dying (that had nothing to do with corona) and only 24 hours later she passed …
birthday tableso sweet!alotofemptydesertedlonesomestreets the marinaus enjoying ususing the sun to preheat my iron pot in which I bake the braedanother breadmask sewingand binding ironingDr. Sabinesome seeds ready to sproutand some sprouts ready to eat El Capitanos working area, the monitor is not yet installedwildlife in the marinaand the beach where we're not allowed to go …
March 25 - April 08, 2020; 2899 nm and 384 days after departure from La Rochelle Another two weeks of Corona lock down have passed. The big question is: what does everybody do with their spare time and how to keep cheered up? I'm not talking about those guys who are working like hell at …
El Capitano with "Hugo" going home after buying groceries (upper pic) and emptiness everywhere... in times of lock down the beach next to the marina after and before lock down a few pics before we got stucked a fisher cleaning fish at las Canteras beach the sculpture at the park close to hotel Santa Catalina …
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