Atlantic Europe & Africa
In this category all our blog posts related to sailing destinations in Atlantic Europe and Africa can be found. In our blog we have chosen to define Atlantic Europe as the seas we will sail south of Bay of Biscay, including the Azores on the return trip. In Africa we sailed to Cape Verde. All posts about sailing can be found under the category Sailing. Links to blog posts from our sailing in Atlantic Europe and Africa:
Spain (Oct 2020) |
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Portugal (Oct-Nov 2020) |
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Canary Islands (Nov-Dec 2020) |
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Cape Verde (Dec 2020) |
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Azores (May-June 2021) |
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Scooter trip on Santo Antao
December 15, 2020 We have heard very good things about the neighbouring island, Santo Antao, so we definately had to make a visit there when we were in Mindelo. The easiest way to visit the island is to take the ferry from Mindelo and then jump onto one of the cars that drive people around on the island, or rent a car or scooter. We rented scooters in Mindelo and took them on the ferry over to Santo Antao. It was a really cool island, and definitely worth a visit if ever in Mindelo. Here comes a bunch of photos to show this cool place.
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Enjoying the African vibes in Mindelo
December 11-14, 2020 After we had checked in properly it was time to take a look at the place we now had sail to, but first we sat down at the marina bar. We took a beer, ate a cheap lunch and used the Wi-Fi. After over a week without limited contact with the outside world it was nice to just sit for a while and scroll through social media. After we had just been chilling for a while we took a walk around Mindelo. Cape Verde really had some African Vibes, with music and market places, quite different atmosphere than Europe. But still you could see some similarities with…
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Canary islands to Cape Verde crossing
We started our Canary Islands to Cape Verde crossing in the beginning of December and the crossing took us 8 days. The highlight of the crossing was having a Marlin following us! Crazy experience. Read more below and/or watch the video of our crossing. Here is a video from our Canary Islands to Cape Verde crossing, where you can see more of the Marlin following us. We speak Swedish in our videos, but all our videos have English subtitles you can activate. Day 1 – December 4, 2020 We left our anchorage outside Puerto de Mogan after we’ve eaten breakfast to start our Canary islands to Cape Verde crossing.…
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Chill/prep days at Gran Canaria
November 24-December 4, 2020 After we got everything we wanted done and bought at Lanzarote we had a window to continue to Gran Canaria. It was pretty unusual weather for this time. Two pretty big low pressures where coming in a couple of days after each other, with both of its centers around Madeira which made the winds coming from southwest/west instead of the usual north/northeast. We had an opportunity to head for Gran Canaria before the winds from the first low pressure reached the Canary Islands. It was a window with no wind unfortunaly so we went by engine all the way. We stopped at Anfi del Mar at…
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Refill gas bottles in Canary Islands (Lanzarote)
November 18-24, 2020 As it is not always obvious where to fill gas bottles we will in this post share where at the Canary Islands (Lanzarote) we could refill our gas bottles, see a bit lower down in the post to read about that. We stayed at La Graciosa four nights before we continued to Lanzarote. It was a pretty calm day and we sailed slowly along the coast of Lanzarote. It was nice to not be in a hurry, it wasn’t a long sail and we could chill in the sun. We arrived to Marina Lanzarote near Arrecife in the afternoon and in the evening we met up with…
