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 …
February 16- February 24, 2020; 2899 nm and 340 days after departure from La Rochelle Yeah, we were able to experience an extreme weather phenomena, called Calima. (See title pic) It is a hot, oppressing dust and sand-laden, southerly to southeasterly wind in the Canary Islands region. It is particularly prevalent in winter and it blows …
leaving marina Lanzarote passing a monster ship Playa Quemada, that was supposed to be our first anchorage , but due to uncomfortable winds, we only passed by the anchorage Rubicón, in the back Playa Blanca Playa Blanca on the left side one can see the anchorage again I did not know that un-mobile phones still …
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February 08- February 16, 2020; 2899 nm and 331 days after departure from La Rochelle How dumb can someone (we) be? I thought by now we'd been in an age where we are able to consider and reasonably distinguish a dangerous situation. Not even close! Leaving Arrecife was great. A beautiful sail down the coast …
The marina Lanzarote just another nice sunset at the lagoon in Arrecife Holy Trinity - boat the anchorage at the west side of the marina some boring palm trees 😉 a huge wreck near the industrial harbour of Arrecife a building in Arrecife, can't recall what it was some art, this sculpture is not made …
January 12 - February 08, 2020; 2781 nm and 323 days after departure from La Rochelle Yes! It was such a nice feeling to leave the marina. Spending almost two month squeezed in a berth next to the quay wall was definitely enough. We needed space and our freedom. That is not to say we …
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