May 24 - June 08 , 2020; 2899 nm and 445 days after departure from La Rochelle Life feels so good! Busy city, busy streets, crowded beaches and noisy construction sites! Who would have thought that we'd be happy about such (usually annoying) circumstances? Definitely nobody and yet we enjoy it! Let's see for how …
May 08 - May 24, 2020; 2899 nm and 430 days after departure from La Rochelle YES! On Monday we had our first cappuccino since the lockdown started - 56 days cappuccinailed! Such a great feeling sitting in a cafe and being allowed to enjoy a nice coffee and seeing other people walk by. It …
April 24 - May 07, 2020; 2899 nm and 413 days after departure from La Rochelle OMG! Just two hours after our last blog entry our hopes of being allowed to have a little freedom were again destroyed. The complicated 4-phase proposal of the Canary government (with suggestions like e.g. people living in even house …
April 09 - April 23, 2020; 2899 nm and 399 days after departure from La Rochelle Our last weekend was one of the saddest in a very long time. Last Thursday we got the sorrowful news that Norbert's mother was dying (that had nothing to do with corona) and only 24 hours later she passed …
March 25 - April 08, 2020; 2899 nm and 384 days after departure from La Rochelle Another two weeks of Corona lock down have passed. The big question is: what does everybody do with their spare time and how to keep cheered up? I'm not talking about those guys who are working like hell at …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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