We arrived in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria Island, at around 4pm just in time for the marina to get back from siesta! We'd forgotten we were basically back in Spain. It was an excellent trip and the guys even caught a fish. Nothing special though, just a bonito. We refuelled and checked in - sort of - no passport stamps or anything?! They found us the last berth in the marina right behind the fuel dock. The ARC Atlantic Rally boats were all in prior to their crossing...

Max and Shaunagh arrived back safe and sound from Avingnon where they'd had a lovely time. We headed off to Corsica that evening, a 12 hour trip, so as to arrive in the morning with some daylight. Peter and I were a bit tired after our anchor watch night but survived. We did leave earlier than planned as the nearby superyacht had some sort of anchor problem and was likely to swing onto us as they attempted to fix it. So we ended up anchoring in the dark but it w...

Just before we left for our night trip to Barcelona we noticed the downstairs instruments in the saloon were not coming on properly! Peter contacted the Palma guys and after a trouble shooting Whatsapp call it turned out the box in the starboard engine bay had packed up. At least there was one in stock that could be delivered to the marina in Barcelona and at least the fly bridge ones were working OK. You have to count your blessings in this world. We duly arrive...

We finally were back in the water in Palma and all jobs finished at the end of June. One major drawback to Palma is the red rain! It is dust from the Sahara that arrives and hangs in the atmosphere usually until it rains - then it just comes down and covers everything, boats, cars, houses, roads etc, this also coincides with the summer water restrictions meaning that not much after we left the pressure is reduced to save water and people are banned from hose clea...

After a very uneventful but beautiful, full lmoon trip overnight from Sardinia we arrived in the Mahon River on Menorca. We were moored at one of the "islands" - floating pontoons in the river where you either use your own dinghy to get ashore or take the water taxi. They have a very strict 4 knot speed limit so it takes ages to get from place to place. Especially noticeable if you get caught in rain! Mahon was as lovely as we remembered from 5 years ag...