After 320 days, almost 11 months, the long-awaited day arrived when we arrived back home. On the morning of June 8, our plane landed at Tallinn Airport. We were quite zombies as from Turkey we flew home via Norway and had to spend half a night at Oslo Airport (not recommended to anyone since the …
After three days in Istanbul, we flew on to Antalya, where we had booked a long hotel vacation. Although Antalya Airport is not very far from the city center and the taxi is relatively cheap, we decided to use a tram which was even cheaper. For this, you need to buy a one-time ticket or …
Arriving in Istanbul, Turkey, already made Europe feel like home. Our airport was on the Asian side of Istanbul but we immediately took a taxi across the Turkish Straits to our accommodation on the European side. Kaija had found us accommodation with a local Turkish man, Sinan, through Couchsurfing. Another Mexican couple stayed at his …
We arrived at the port of Estaca on the 18 of October. Starting from that day we have been waiting for the right winds to sail to Cape Verde. Unfortunately the winds had turned against us and the waiting last in total about one week. So we had plenty of time to get to know …
We started sailing towards El Hierro island on early morning of 18th of October. The day started magnificently. We woke up when Margus shouted that there are whales and if we want to see those we should come up quickly. This was the fastest we have ever gotten out of the bed. Exactly on the …
We arrived to Tenerife, Marina der Sur of Las Galletas, on 2nd of October. Its a small marina in a little town Las Galletas. We selected this harbor, because its relatively cheap. Next to the harbor is an anchorage area. Although its sort of an unofficial anchorage area, it still seems to be widely used …
When it was decided we go to Tenerife, we knew we wanted to climb on top of the Mount Teide which is a volcano and Its 3,718-metre summit is the highest point in Spain and the highest point above sea level in the islands of the Atlantic. There are several ways to visit Mount Teide. …
We sailed from Morocco to Lanzarote a couple of days. A perfect weather, warm water and a completely new harbor with conveniences were waiting for us in Arrecife. We had not been in such a nice harbor before. Despite the harbor was quite new, the harbor tax was quite low. It was much lower than …
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. …