going over to Gibraltar you have to cross the runway of Gibraltar, when there is air traffic, it just gets closed and everyone has to wait
we definitely feel being in United Kingdom: God save the Queen!the streets look rather english than spanishnice saying in the Irish pub, good for sailors who just went through the Med this year… 😉my “little” sister Flavia and her boy friend Sebastian are the first visit from home on boardand help stock up the essentials on board 😉the Gibraltar Rock finally without cloads when it is time to goin the middle of the Gibraltar straight, with many boats around us – and even though both engines are running we only make 4 knots in average due to the counter current against usthe first sunset not far away from Tangerone of the nice big ones who corrected his course by himself in order to avoid collision with usthe Calamar that jumped on boardthe Royal Clipper seemed curious and came close to us …jesus, that is a heavy piece of fish !!I did find the teeth a bit unusual for a thunadamn and that fin ?as a result, a hopefully happy again thuna and a broken fishing rodapproaching the Estrecho del Rio, to the left Lanzarote and to the right La GraciosaPunta Farlones, the most northern part of Lanzaroteafter 5 days and 608 miles we happily arrived – and of course we had one or two Cruzcampo to celebrate 😉Heide and Pete in front of the ajuntamento of Arrecifefamily meeting, in the back the bay of Arrecife old harbourthe view down from the Grand Hotel to the beach in the souththe Charco de San Gines with many coulorful boatsin the Timanfaya national parkeverywhere volcano cones and interesting lava sculpturescreative and also delicious PintxosLos Hervideros – that does look like the atlantic ocean !so we test some of that wine that grows here in such difficult conditionsPete trains us on the Lotus grill and it does taste fine!!!finally again on the bike 😉Ermite de las Nieves almost on topView down to Arrieta and Punta Mujeresthe sculptures that are supposed to be set into the sea
