Category: Ports of Call
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Gibraltar – A Peculiar Place
After a few blissful days in Palma de Mallorca, we continued our journey south to Gibraltar. Specifically, we headed to La Línea de la Concepción, a Spanish town neighboring Gibraltar. After sailing for three and a half days and covering approximately 500 nautical miles, we pulled into a slip at Alcaidesa Marina. Unlike the previous…
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Lovely Palma de Mallorca
Palma de Mallorca was a lovely stop for us. The Real Club Náutico de Palma Marina is enormous and quite enjoyable. There is an impressive variety of sailboats docked there, ranging from super-yachts to antique sailboats. The Mediterranean truly embraces a sailing culture, as opposed to much of the USA, where powerboats mostly dominate. We…
