39 47.6 N 002 41.6 E Soller, MallorcaThurs 22nd July 2010A week has gone by, and this is too long! Sorry.This is Mallorca so you have to go to Palma. We took the bus from Ponca to have a look. The Baie de Palma is huge and full of expensive marinas, so we were not sure we wanted to go there by boat. So glad. The bus was fun, the marinas as big and spread out (miles from anywhere) as expected and Palma was a surprising delight. We ignored the cruise liners and ...

39 02.2 N 001 36.6 E Cala San Carlo, IbizaTues 13th July 2010We have spent the last week and a bit doing an almost complete circumnavigation of Ibiza. Went back to where there is a gap between Espalmador (where we landed) and Ibiza to have a look at Ibiza town itself. It was everything you imagine (and reminded us why we avoid places like that)! But had to say been there, done that. Back through the gap to start a clockwise look at the island. From Jondal on i...

38 52.0 N 001 18.9 E Cale Jondal, Ibiza Monday 5th July 2010I forgot - my coordinates are wrong in previous blog - we are now E longitude, not W. R did not get slime when we crossed, but I did drench him with water.We had the most pleasant, the easiest ever "channel" length crossing on 1st July. A gentle beam reach, wind no more than 6-12 knots, but a flat sparkly sea, so we managed to maintain speeds between 5 and 6.5 knots. 57 nm in 10 hours accom...

38 35.3 N 000 3.4 W Javea (or Xabia)Wednesday 30th June 2010A couple more hops brought us to Javea (or Xabia in Valencianne) on Monday. The region speaks Castillian and (we thought) Catalan. But the locals are insistent the language is Valencianne and dismiss Catalan completely! Javea is very nice - touristy in a good way, but with a lot of foreign residents, mostly British and German so there is English widely spoken, an English second hand bookshop where I ...

38 35.3 N 000 3.4 W Altea Saturday 26th June 2010 Almost at the Greenwich meridian and longitude East rather than West. I have told R that I need to cover him in green slime or some such and we can pretend it is the equator. We have been making tracks, sailing as much as possible, most of it now uphill and really lumpy. Not that we have had high winds, often little in the morning, up to F4/5 in pm, but it is surprising how even a glassy sea here can have ...