Total distance travelled from Santos: 5278 nautical milesCádiz is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Spain and sometimes counted as the most ancient city still standing in Western Europe. The city was originally founded by the Phoenicians and named Agadir. As there was already a city in Morocco by the same name it was confusing for merchants. This was changed to Gadir for sanity sake and then as other nations settled on this narrow but strategic outpost f...

Total miles travelled from Santos: 4648 nautical milesWe docked in Arrecife, the capital of Lanzarote at 10am, not a cloud in the sky, fluffy or otherwise. Up in the buffet some people seemed to be wearing sweaters, jackets, and even coats as they all descended like piranhas mopping up what the locusts had left behind on the breakfast buffet before venturing out on either an organised tour, taking the shuttle the 4 miles in to Arrecife town or to negotiate a pric...

Distance travellled since Santos 4160 nautical miles As mentioned in the previous entry we lost all TV and internet reception during our Atlantic crossing. As we enter the waters around the Canary Islands we have just received a s*** load of new TV channels to the delight of most of the men on board but much to the disgust of the women!!The last time we were in Tenerife I was hobbling on one foot and we arrived shortly before a tropical storm hit. We have alrea...

During this cruise, and I know this will excite one of the readers of this blog, for the first time I have known Ukulele lessons on board led by our Bob Dylan guitar playing friend, Chris Ricketts. I understand from one of the participants that the ship only has 19 'ukes' on board. The demand is far outweighing the supply. I heard that Mr Ricketts is teaching these complete beginners 'Rockin' all over the world’ by ‘the Quo’ and ...

As we lay back on the pillows in the bed on the first night in our new cabin we both had a peaceful, easy feeling (I must stop doing that!!) and woke at 8am refreshed after an undisturbed night (except a toilet trip at 4am but that's an age thing!!)My foot was throbbing today probably after the extent of the walk and the exertions of the downhill incline yesterday. We decided it is not worth risking it changing in to a pig’s foot (it still looks like a ...