March 08 - March 23 2021; 6783 nm and 733 days after departure from La Rochelle. Isn't that a sweet name for a street? "Lovers Lane", I thought it kind of represents how the Grenadian people are. So far we only met nice and very friendly people. Yeah, sure, you always find some grumpy ones …
St George's Our first days ashore the view from customs office in Port Louis while waiting for our papersthe Carenageempty streets in St George's our first supermarket after weeks at seathe bay of Carenagethe dinghi dock at Grenada Yacht Club where we got testedheading back to Altimate after our first day ashore St George's and …
February 12 - March 07 2021; 6783 nm and 717 days after departure from La Rochelle. Finally free! After waiting under the tent (see blog pic) for a couple of hours we got our neg results and could finish the customs/immigration procedure. Waiting for the results was in fact not as bad as it might …
our last night in Las Palmas, being very excited to leave the next day, we were dancing at Las Canteras beachthe last walk to get some bread in the morning of the 20.01.21a beautiful last morning our dear friend Carlos, who was our neighbour already during the lockdown in Las Palmas , came over to …
January 20 - February 11 2021; 6778 nm and 696 days after departure from La Rochelle. What can I say? WE ARE SO DAMN PROUD! We sailed 3023 nm in 21 days and 7 hours. Not bad at all, isn't it? That was an average speed of 5,6 knots,(which is pretty fast for our Altimate), …
December 30 - January 20 2020; 3767 nm and 671 days after departure from La Rochelle. Yes! We're just about to leave. We're so excited. Wednesday (tomorrow) the 20th of January 2021 will be THE day. We'll leave the Canary Islands, well even Europe to finally head off to the Caribbean. Our original plan to …
Continue reading Our next destination: Grenada – 2800 nm just open water
The first days with Luis aboard here he is, just arrived and hungryoff we go to show him the townParque de Santa CatalinaLuis arrived and the sun came out at las Canteras beachimpressive big wavesChristmas tree next to palm trees -we liked thatwe tried the fish restaurant "La Marinera" at the north end of Las …
The kids arrived from Paris mom is happy with little daughter; daughter is happy being at the beach Las Canterastrying to catch some xmas feelingsNorwegian neighbours just about to leave to the Caribbean shopping time with the kids A trip to Arucas, a town west of LP some xmas decoration on our way to Arucassomewhere …
December 05 - December 30 2020; 3767 nm and 650 days after departure from La Rochelle. Here it comes, a little late but still! The view of how our dear daughter felt about visiting us😁: After a long 1.5 years you once more get the pleasure of indulging into one of my famous pieces of …
The low pressure in the cover picture was the reason we left our favourite anchorage. A couple of days later it caused the catabatic winds falling down the clips of Lanzarote. Those winds produced the uncomfortable wind waves in the anchorage. leaving the pretty marina of Puerto Caleroon our way back to La Graciosa, a …
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