Mir, Mandy & Me

  As it was so pleasant we spent a few more days in Cala Galdana. Found this photo of the place pre 60's tourist invasion. The place hasn't aged too badly. Flew the drone, had lots of swims, some of them clothing optional and went for a walk - like real vloggers.  I like a bit of foliage in the foreground of our photos.  We lost a halliard trying to lift the dinghy onboard and I had to balance on the boom with a big stick to get it back.   After about a week we moved on to Calo Blanc, a beautiful small anchorage directly on the flight path to Minorca airport.  We had a great snorkel and Mandy went for a spin on her paddleboard. We spent a very peaceful night here alone with the occasional late night flight but in the morning we were woken by this monster dropping its anchor. It's called Ambition and is owned by Amazon web services, London. 170 foot long, space for 12 guests and 14 crew/slaves. We sailed off our anchor shortly after they arrived just to...

Mallorca just keeps getting better and better, so much so I am beginning to think it's not real. We met Dave at Porto Cristo. Dave is an old college mate who helped us get the boat up from Ipswich after we bought it. (  Attempt 1 – Ipswich Haven to Thames estuary  and  Attempt 3 – Ipswich to Pwllheli  attempt 2 failed because we couldn't get out of the marina as the lock gates were being serviced)  We left Porto Criso after re supplying and cleaning the boat. had a great champagne sail to Cala Agulla anchorage for an overnight stop. An almost empty, enormous anchorage that was very quiet. We had for company 3 massive yachts and the most amazing rainbow ever. The colours where so vivid. We're not in Kansas anymore. Then on to Alcudia, another lovely seafront holiday resort with an amazing old walled town a short walk away. We had to check out the fuel dock and beach for landing our dinghy so I took the opportunity to show Dave how fast our dinghy went. We had a l...