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 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 …
June 20 - July 11, 2022; 8901 nm and 1208 days after departure from La Rochelle. Santa Marta is a crazy, colourful, noisy and bustling city. After living for so many month in laid back Caribbean islands it was almost a shock (though a nice one) being back in a proper city. So many people, …
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(I borrowed the feature pic from the web. We were not in the mood and capable to take pics at lightning night) June 14 - June 19, 2022; 8901 nm and 1186 days after departure from La Rochelle. What a scary experience! We planned our sail to Santa Marta very carefully. The focus was on …
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