We had a great time in Carloforte, eating out at La Cantina, getting a good cheap haircut, and the girls enjoyed playing in the square. However after 2 days and on discovering that the August prices were 55eu a day we set off to anchor for a night before heading to Menorca. As we were leaving our bad engine started to get worse - oil was still leaking from it despite our having tightened everything we could find, and the knocking noise was getting much worse. We ...

We did leave andratx on the Monday after seeing Pj Heidi, Donna and Peter on Sunday (they drove across from Pollenca to see us). We had a motor to Soller - no wind at all, leaving at a civilised time and using the autohelm all the way - life has never been so easy! On our way up the northern coast of Mallorca John spotted dolphins in a bay, so we headed in for a look. As soon as we were close, the dolphins took it in turns to come and swim with us by the two bows...

Hi everyone. This is a quick(ish) blog. After some of my negative comments ina previous blog about life on anchor, I thought I should let you know that we are finding it much easier than anticipated! With practice our anchoring is getting slicker, and we are getting more confident in our delta anchor and less confident in our CQR (it seems to always land upside down).Sarah, James, Ben and baby Lizzie's visit was great, we were pleased as punch to see them all (an...

Hello again! We are in Mallorca, in Andrax, currently anchored in the inner harbour on 3 anchors. How did we come to be here? Well, Alberto and Manolo finally finshed our steering to all of our satisfaction on Monday 25th of Feb (I think) and we filled up our new tanks with diesel (no leaks - hooray) and set off to try out the autopilot and the steering. It all worked well, and as there was a favourable breeze and we had paid up and packed up the dingy and the bi...

Well far from kicking our heels and tapping our fingers we have managed to have a lovely time while waiting for our steering to be finished. (Although I have to say HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE!!!)We have crossed lots of jobs off our to do list (mostly John really), diesel tanks have arrived and are fitted (no leaks!) and we have even fitted new filler capes in the cockpit.We have also done lots more sightseeing in Barcelona - including the chocolate museum (mmmmmmmmmmm...