From Santa Marta to Cartagena, we had a stop at Rodadero and Puerto Valero leaving the bay and the skyline of Santa Marta playa Lipo a little south of Santa Marta our first anchorage just a couple of miles around the corner, Playa El Rodadero, this place was a very touristic place, lots of Colombian …
October 07 - October 29, 2022; 9146 nm and 1318 days after departure from La Rochelle. It was such a nice feeling being back at anchor and not having continuously big projects in mind. There was finally time to do just nothing. So after splashing we just stayed aboard our pretty lady and enjoyed our …
Feature picture: coffee cherries getting ripe Minca was a peaceful little village in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains. The village was only a 45 min bus drive from Santa Marta. What an incredible change from city life to mountainous paradise. Minca and it's surroundings was such a nice green area, …
Medellín was definitely a cool place to be. A huge and busy city situated nicely in a picturesque valley 1500m high in the Andes. It provides a perfect temperature the whole year through. Sunny and hot in the day and comfortably cooler at night, so very different to Santa Marta's humid heat. And with its recent …
August 21 - October 07, 2022; 9029 nm and 1296 days after departure from La Rochelle. Hell, was I lazy regarding my blog. But, I have an excuse! We have been working our botties off. Why did nobody tell me that living on a boat could be so labour intensive? Most of the time it …
August 09 - August 21, 2022; 8901 nm and 1249 days after departure from La Rochelle. Yeah, finally we were in the relaxed mood to start exploring the -for us new- country and continent. Colombia is such a divers country. According to Wikipedia, Colombia is one of the world's seventeen megadiverse countries and has the …
First days back on Altimate early in the morning after some hours of sleep, still tired but happy to be back an amazing sunrise at 5:30 am me, admiring the sunrise working hard a beautiful old sailing ship showing off at sunset in front of SM bay the new wheel cover not a difficult work …
I thought the "Glück" pic fitted perfectly for the featured image. "Glück" means "happiness" and that was what we felt being back home and hopefully will the freshly married couple feel most of their life. How poetic of me 🤣. I took the picture at my friend Marion's place. She placed "Glück" for everybody to …
July 11 - August 09, 2022; 8901 nm and 1237 days after departure from La Rochelle. It was a loooong trip to Europe! Caused by a 10 hour stopover in Bogotá. Our mistake, as we booked two separate flights. Not the best decision we've ever made, but we thought we might stay a couple of …
First days in Santa Marta Altimate safe sound at the dock and immedeately we started to do some laundry nice coffee laundry morning, still tired but happy Los Novios Park at the historical centre Bahia de Santa Marta different view Bahia de Santa Marta just outside the marina, I was admiring the twisted cactus our …
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