On our journey into the Mediterranean in 2014, we met friends that were on their way out. As we shared the adventures we'd had since we'd last met, one comment of theirs that really stuck in our heads was "leaving the Med is much harder than going in." How true this turned out to be.

So far we’d been biting off chunks of the 550nm from Menorca to Gibraltar, taking favourable winds when we could. We were now in Formentera, where those winds were being very elusive.

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