A week ago on the 9th September, we hopped on Salacia. It has been a week of getting to know the life at sea. We were greeted by Margus at the Leixous harbor. It’s a yacht marina and commercial port next to Porto. We had a quick coffee at the harbor so we could briefly …
As we have mentioned in a few previous posts, our intention is to cross the Atlantic Ocean with a sailboat. The reason for this is that Jaanus has always dreamed to sail around the world and when we started to plan our around the world trip Jaanus was trying to sell this idea to Kaija. …
We woke up petty early and started moving towards mountains to deliver our car to Margus. It’s quite a coincident that we are selling our means of transportation, the car, to Margus in order to meet the other Margus whose sailboat will be our next transportation method. In total, we stayed up there in the mountains …
The next day after the hike along Paiva river we had to go to Porto already. We had agreed to meet Ricardo, with whom we made contact through CouchSurfing. We met him in a really sweet cafeteria central Porto and he introduced us to Oleg and Anna, from Minsk, who were joining us for the …
After Madrid, we started to drive toward Portugal. Since we did not know exactly how much time we have until our sailboat can pick us up, we did not do any specific planning what we will do in Portugal. We knew we wanted to see the nature and also spend some time by the coast. …