It’s a fair old distance from Gibralter to Barcelona. I seem to remember the captain saying it was 420 nautical miles – but that might have been from Cádiz. Or it might have been the distance from Casablanca to Cádiz! …
9. CÁDIZ
On the way to Cádiz, while travelling almost due North, we seemed to have lost a couple of hours sleep. Interesting how national policies on time and “summer time” work to confuse us mortal travellers. Cádiz. A lovely city. Possibly…
5. GRAN CANARIA
I’m having to retype this section. A bit of a tragedy on the Internet front. It stopped yesterday. Stopped for EVERYBODY! The ship has a weirdly complicated system on board. Every cabin gets one account (at least) – the posher,…
4. TENERIFE
As usual, I’m getting impressively behind. As this is being written, I’m watching the African coast glide by some 8-10 miles off the starboard side. And although there is a bit of a swell, we are heading more or less…
3. MADEIRA
Hours at sea to come! Hours and hours. With an ‘interesting” rolling swell from the starboard side. Ten metre swell from somewhere out over the Eastern horizon. All the way from the Gulf of Mexico, possibly. And possibly only 10…
1. Lisbon
Lisbon here we come! OK, I admit we set off from home a smidgeon early. But by Exeter, I was unsure where exactly my phone was. My “brain”! A brief diversion to Exeter services to check before heading back to…