Easy to climb into the imagination of the many who came before when the land erupts poetically and the sea whispers and bangs. Caves stealthily cut back from initial view and faces carved of stone seem simply to be frozen tales where the gods were put to sleep. Patterns of climbing green grazing grounds are […]
When we left Palma, you could’ve skipped a stone. So still was the water. We dropped the bow mooring lines well ahead of the stern/dock lines, not because we now had a functioning bow thruster but simply because it was that calm. We bid adieu to our Russian neighbor, unfazed by our squashing fenders as […]
Mallorca, Spain The date is 6/19/18 By Quinn Walling So, we have been in Mallorca for 2 whole weeks. It is amazing. It has a church that has been there for 800 years, crazy right? Eventually we got our bikes out. It took a while to get all the rust and salt off, but we […]
Mallorca, Spain 6-19-18 Gherty’s blog three old and cool places Even though this isn’t the first thing we did I’m going to start with it. It is when we went on a carriage ride (with a horse) around the cathedral (for some of that don’t know a cathedral is a giant church) […]
Mallorca Spain Date: unknown. Today I am going to talk about this amazing place called Spain! not a long time ago we Took a carriage ride with a guy named Manolo and the horse is named Vicky. Vicky had brown skin, caring eyes, and long mane. The ride was amazing, looking at all the buildings […]
We’ve been “assimilating” for 10 days now. Working on boat issues, language issues, jet lag behavior issues and “wrapping our heads around this most amazing and unlikely turn in our adventure” issues. Medieval castles and cathedrals…check. Tight alleyway cafes and food to write about…check. Parks with geocache finds for the kids and shady cafes for […]
A journey begins with one step, or in our case forty-five hundred miles. This floating family has found themselves in the simply astonishing land of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands of Spain, where it rains of blood and blows dry, fast, then still. Madame Geneva, our sailing vessel of now three years, arrived by ship […]