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 …
March 04 - March 25, 2020; 2899 nm and 369 days after departure from La Rochelle It would have been soooo nice to leave! But sometimes things change just like this. That was a nice description of being annoyed about our chart plotter and not using swearwords. Our plotter was not willing to work anymore. …
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proud kids showing their catch of the day, see below what a big catch close to Santa Brigada on our way to Tejeda just arrived in Tejeda walking down to the village somewhere ... in... the village a park the view to the lower part of the town and the promenade church on the left …
February 24 - March 04, 2020; 2899 nm and 349 days after departure from La Rochelle Legging behind reality, just enjoy the Corona-free posting. I was very curious of how carnival would be here in the Canaries. The peak of the jollifications in Las Palmas were at the last weekend of February. The drag queen …
in the historical centre of Las Palmas, Vegueta typical pedestrian street in Vegueta just a building I liked the little beach next to the marina in the northern part of LP, a church with no name the modern area ... with an ugly hotel Playa de las Canteras , the huge town beach on the …
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