Heading South - Follow the bear

Vessel Name: Symphony
Vessel Make/Model: Beneteau Oceanis 343 Clipper
Hailing Port: Hamble
Crew: Steven & Lisa-Ann
16 March 2022 | Sant Carles De La Rapita
19 October 2021 | Sant Carles De La Rapita
08 September 2019 | Sant Carles De La Rapita
07 September 2019 | Sant Carles De La Rapita
30 August 2019 | Sant Carles De La Rapita
29 August 2019 | Sant Carles De La Rapita
28 August 2019 | Sant Carles De La Rapita
28 August 2019 | Sant Carles De La Rapita
24 August 2019 | Sant Carles De La Rapita
31 July 2019 | Bahia D'afacs
28 July 2019 | Tarragona
25 July 2019 | Tarragona
23 July 2019 | Barcelona
22 July 2019 | The Balearic Islands
21 July 2019 | Mediterranean Sea
16 July 2019 | Fornells
09 July 2019 | Fornells
08 July 2019 | Mahon
Recent Blog Posts
16 March 2022 | Sant Carles De La Rapita

Hasta luego Symphony, muchas gracias, love Steven & Lisa xx

We have returned to Spain to meet the new owners of Symphony, Arek and Iwona, to run through all her systems.

19 October 2021 | Sant Carles De La Rapita

We're back, overalls in hand!

As quick reminder, at the end of the season in 2019, we decided Symphony would be put on the market and we would start the process of buying/fitting out a blue water yacht to head off into the yonder. Well, what with Covid-19, the restrictive lockdowns over the last two years and life in general we have [...]

09 September 2019 | Sant Carles De La Rapita

A round up of our Balearic Islands and Western Mediterranean Spain Cruise

A round up of our Balearic Islands and Western Mediterranean Spain Cruise

08 September 2019 | Sant Carles De La Rapita

Our month at Sant Carles

Well, it is true to say, August in the Western Mediterranean becomes very, very busy and expensive. The Balearic Islands during this time are infiltrated with French & Italians all willing to pay vast amounts of euros to stay anywhere here. Even the mainland, north above Barcelona, leans to French Riviera [...]

07 September 2019 | Sant Carles De La Rapita

Dia de Arroz

Dia de Arroz translates to "day of the rice" and is essentially Sant Carles De La Rapita's harvest festival.

30 August 2019 | Sant Carles De La Rapita

What a feast & Steven becomes an apprentice

Not content with taking us out on their boat, Jordi and Rosa kindly invited us to their home to celebrate the Fiesta de Santa Rosa.

Explore ashore

07 July 2019 | Fornells
Steven
After a relaxing morning on-board, we went ashore again to see a little more of Fornells.

We visited the Castell Sant Antoni along the promenade overlooking the harbour entrance. It has been 'restored' with the liberal use of concrete but it still highlights the defence position used during the various changes of the countries who had been in place in Menorca.

Over the centuries the island regularly changed hands in particular between the French and the English.

Fornells reminds us of a Spanish/French Salcombe, it has that feel to it. However, the anchorage has space and the comings and goings in the Cala's are not apparent here apart from the dinghy sailing from the clubs.

The local restaurants and shops are of fairly high quality and the prices reflect this too.

We are enjoying our time here and plan to stay
for a fair few days as it is on the whole peaceful and gives us time to reflect on where we are after a busy winter.
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