Leaving Lisbon and Sintra behind, we jumped on the motorway and headed back down south as fast as Romy could take us. Our intention was to follow the Atlantic coast from Cabo de Sao Vicente--the most western point on the European continent--as far north as we could manage [...]
The most southern part of Spain--Andalucia--is so rich in history that it can be spellbinding, and that was certainly our reaction to much of what we experienced there. This is largely the result of Moorish influence that is still prevalent and felt nearly everywhere. After all, the Moors, [...]
While not exclusively searching for sunshine prior to arriving in Spain, it was certainly something which seemed to make all the difference in our general attitude and mood. In Spain we began to find it consistently. What sets Northern Spain apart most emphatically from the rest of the [...]
We arrived back in Palma de Majorca early in 2000, at the end of the first week of April. We felt this gave us a real jump on the summer as it was a full month more than we'd had the previous year. We didn't feel pushed to get going [...]
We returned to sailing later than we had anticipated in Spring of 1999, in part because of the birth of our first grandchild in Toronto a couple of days after Christmas, and land travel for the winter. We picked up Dan the Van outside San Francisco in [...]
The six years we spent aboard our 39 foot sailing catamaran Icarus--from 1998 to 2004--were some of the very best of our lives, and we thought it would be worthwhile to put together some posts which would recount those years, from Gibraltar to Syria, Lebanon and Israel. We [...]
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