The – Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) is an annual transatlantic sailing event for cruiser yachts held since 1986. ARC starts at[…]
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Las Palmas – Gran Canaria
Well, we just about managed to pull ourselves away from Marina Rubicon and make the 96-mile journey across to Gran[…]
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Rubicon Marina – Lanzarote
Rubicon – (def) A limit that when passed or exceeded, permits no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment. I’m not[…]
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Lagos to La Graciosa (Lanzarote)
The whole of the European Leg of our trip was to culminate in our longest time at sea, the crossing[…]
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Fiqueira de Foz, Peniche, a brief stop in Lisbon and onto Lagos.
We had spent far much longer in Porto than we had originally planned, and probably drank and bought far to[…]
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Porto
Well, what an amazing place! Porto or correctly spelled, Oporto is Located along the Douro river estuary in Northern Portugal,[…]
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Portugal
We left Iles de Cies at Lunchtime, just when we couldn’t stand the rolling any longer and the day trippers[…]
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Pontevedra, Sanxanxo and the Isla Cies
Sanxanxo, is the Ria Pontevedra’s equivalent to San Tropez, its where the Madridian’s go on holiday, we stopped a couple[…]
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Ria Arousa
With the Trip to Santiago and Canon de Sil, we had originally intended to stay in Portosin for just a[…]
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Overlanding! – Santiago de Compostela & Canon de Sil (For some reason this didn’t get published when we did it?)
We hired a car from the lovely Carmella at the Marina at Portosin, a first time drive in a Fiat[…]
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