Our couschurfing buddies recommended that if we want to go hiking then Santo Antoa, the neighbor island of Sao Vincent, is the best place where to do this. The island is often called hikers paradise. So we went there to discover whether it is worth its name and we discovered that it certainly was. On …
In our previous blog we described our adventure of Sailing from Canary’s to Cape Verde. The recovery from this trip took a long time. The first days in Mindelo we were exhausted and did not really do much to look around in the town. In addition, we had to take a couple of days to …
The ones who follow our journey via PolarSteps may have noticed that we are not hanging around the marina anymore. This is because we decided to leave the boat and not to do the Atlantic Ocean crossing with it. It came as a difficult decision because it was one of our goals during this journey. …
We were checking the weather forecast every day to find the best time to start sailing to Cape Verde. It seemed that no matter when we sail, on the first days we will have to use the engine because good winds seem to be about 100 nm offshore and it is calm around the islands. …
Essaouira is also a small fishing town. There were no special facilities for sailboats so we had moor in the fishing harbor like in El Jadida. This time, though, next to another sailboat who in turn was moored next to the local pilot boat. So the boats were moored there to another and you needed …
Our last stop in Europe was Sagres in Portugal. This is a small fishing town in the south-west corner of Portugal. We stayed there for two nights waiting for the right winds to sail to Morocco. Sagres is around the cornerLocal dogs fooling aroundbye bye Europe It was 2,5 days sailing from Portugal to Morocco. …