Photo: Yellowfin tuna - when you have a dozen cans in the cupboard...
The Red Sea is not like the Mediterranean. The countries and cultures that border the Red Sea are beyond recognition when compared to the European countries of the northern Mediterranean. Here was Arabic culture, poverty and starvation. We came into the Red Sea in our posh sailboat representing a degree of wealth that we ourselves didn't immediately recognise. We don't consider ourselves rich... we pride ourselves in our ability to live our own reasonably simple way of life on a sailboat. The people of Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Yemen didn't see things in this way at all.
This post describes our voyage south through the Red Sea to Yemen. We had entered a different world in terms of living onboard a sailboat...
Read more of this post... >
________________________________________________________________________________
Please visit our SV Sänna website for more details of our circumnavigation voyage from the UK. Also at www.facebook.com/SV.Sanna. Like our Facebook page if you'd like to receive more news about our sail adventure. You can contact us here.