Hello again friends. In our previous post we continued exploring the magnificent city of Cartagena. The city managed to transform its long history into very accessible tourist attractions, combined with good shopping, excellent restaurants and friendly people. It was however time to move further West again. On Monday morning Nov 27, at the crack of […]
Hello friends. In our previous blog we left Ibiza and sailed via a few anchorages on Spain’s East coast to the Mar Menor, where we stayed 10 days at anchor at Los Nietos to visit magnificent Cartagena by train. In that blog we focussed on the Carthaginian (Punic) period when the city was founded. However,
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Hello dear friends. In our previous blog we took on the challenging 340 Nm sail from Tunisia to Mallorca, met up with our friends Jonalyn and Victor and explored the “Dalt Vila” of Ibiza. In this blog we will sail further to the South-West to Cartagena, mainland Spain. Leaving our anchorage near Dalt Vila (Ibiza
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Hello again. In our previous blog we described the last leg of our roundtrip in Tunisia, visiting Jasmin, Hammamet, Tunis and finishing in ancient Carthage the capital of the Punic empire 650–149 BC. Back on the boat we said farewell to our Tunisian friends Ramy and Kawthar and prepared for the 340 miles sail to
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Our aim was to get to Turkey via Tunesia. However the three months hold-up in Morocco due to COVID meant we now had to deal with the July and August winds in the Southern Med and they are predominantly from the East, the so called “Levante”. After observing the weather pattern for two weeks when
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Not surprisingly; walking in Gibraltar is like walking in a giant medieval fort. You can enter via the main road but you can also take the “original entrance”. Following the tunnel you end up on Casemates Square, that got its name from the bunkers and bombproof barracks. The square is now lined with pubs, restaurants
With the boat safely moored in marina Alcaidesa waiting for the parts to fix the escape hatches we rented a car and went to Seville for a three day visit. We arrived around lunch time so after checking in in the hotel we went for lunch in a Lebanese restaurant. We had left Abu Dhabi
After pasport control you follow Winston Churchill Avenue and cross the famous airstrip into the North District of Gibraltar city. The first suburb you walk into is “Ocean Village” a Dubai like development with high risers, waterfront bars and restaurants around a small marina. We enjoyed many sun-downers in this cozy area. Gibraltar has a
In Cadiz we assessed the situation with Newpoint Moverbo the Dutch dealer of our boat. If we stayed in Cadiz waiting for the necessary parts to make the escape hatches safe to sail, we would not be able to leave Europe before the deadline of March 05, 2020. As a consequence we would become VAT
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The first overnight stay when back in Spain was in the lovely Marina Isla Canela. Spain was under Moorish rule for 250 years longer than neighbouring Portugal and the attractive Marina development is based on Moorish architecture which we came to appreciate once in Tangier Morocco. Early morning next day we were off for the
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