October 27 - November 06, 2019; 2386 nm and 229 days after departure from La Rochelle Great news! Jana will visit us again. Yippeeeeee.🙃 She found her first job and as she still has some time left before she starts, she decided to jump in a plane to see us. Of course we were super …
us sitting at the marina bar next to the parking lot. It's not always beach and palm trees, here concrete with palm trees :-); being busy with the blog turn 180 degrees the marina and the anchorage within the protected area the marina from the west side; the daily Porto Santo ferry from Funchal in …
October 11 - October 27, 2019; 2339 nm and 219 days after departure from La Rochelle Isn't it funny? Cows are strolling at the high plateau at Madeiras centre like the cows do in the alps. Big poohs showing their tracks. 😉 And when you need to pass them they cross the streets in a …
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Mr. Columbus View from Parque de Santa Catarina to Marina Funchal a cactus-tree Not too far from Quinta do Lore before a short walk nice walk with different ... views the natural infinity pool of Quinta do Lore we found a little beach at the west side of the Marina; the access took a little …
October 01 - October 11, 2019; 2306 nm and 203 days after departure from La Rochelle Luis arrived first of October around 1:30 in the morning. We were of course very excited but also had some trouble not to fall asleep before his arrival at this time of day. So we did, well I can't …
just a quick stop on the way to Porto da Cruz using the old road ER 108; around 600 m above sea level, close to Ribeira de Machico. a nice colourful tree close to Pico de Areiro ( if I remember right) my boys 😁 another beautiful ... spectacular... view quay Porto da Cruz Luis …
September 22- September 30, 2019; 2207 nm and 192 days after departure from La Rochelle What a fish! The "Espada" (black scabbard fish, Schwarzer Degenfisch), the fish you can see in the introduction pic is a very impressive creature with it's strong teeth. It is THE fish in Porto Santo and Madeira which you find …
September 16- September 22, 2019; 2174 nm and 184 days after departure from La Rochelle Leaving Morocco was as easy as arriving. El Capitano did the check out for the marina a day ahead; all the payment was done, only immigration and customs needed to be finished. Again we were very lucky, after maybe half …
September 08- September 16, 2019; 1574 nm and 178 days after departure from La Rochelle The 60 nm leg to Africa (sounds great doesn't it 🤓) was unspectacular. The most exciting part was, us weaving through the traffic separation scheme (yes, there are traffic separation schemes in the water as well, here because of the …
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