Gone sailing

Shared joy is a double joy*

It's been some good days that passed the last two weeks and very much easier than we expected. Everyone adapted impressively fast to the spartan and tight boat life and it's a bit sad it all went so fast. Two more people in tonight for one more Swedish influenced week on the sea and soon thereafter we'll set off for our four weeks vacation towards Corsica and Italy in mid July. Intense boat life but wonderful to be able to share it with people we love.

Pic: Fish soup made of Bonito and Mackerel, potatoes and vegetables.

*Swedish proverb.

Fashion week on the boat

Caos is the most fashionable boat this week. Two of my best friends have arrived and filled the boat inside out with their weekend gears. Let's not ask Alex what is his opinion about this :0 /T

Preparing for visitors

Alex's pasta carbonara on s/v Caos last night.

We are in the middle of a full house cleaning here. New visitors will be bumping in and out on this boat until mid July with start from tomorrow. Will be very interesting to see how all of our dear friends (who never stayed on Caos before) will enjoy living on a boat with limited space. Especially when we will be five, full grown people sleeping here at the same time some of the nights! Wonderful weeks ahead and Alex brother Nico will be the first one in tomorrow. /Taru

Our lovely readers

We love our readers, we love when you comment here on the blog and when you take the time to write about our planned voyage in your own sites, your notes make our day! Here's one of our new readers that we found through the statistics. Thanks Molly!

In the end of the day, we wouldn't have started this blog if we wouldn't wanted to share this experience with you all. What is also wonderful is that our readers seem to be of all categories. From the experienced sailors, to the family-guys and globetrotters to the business owners, the fashion girls, cultural ladies, nature lovers and whoever!

If we can give a small dose of inspiration to our readers, then we have achieved what we wanted. Thanks all for reading and thanks all of you who spread the word about this voyage. We look forward to have you all with us when we leave Spain in 138 days (or earlier)!

One of those weekends

25 degrees in the water now! (77°F)

Lunch sailing

Today's lunch was enjoyed on a dead flat sea. (guess who's the Nutella addict in this house.)/T

Sunday night details

Costa Brava some weeks ago

It's a pretty small area of the coast we're hanging around in at the moment. From Sitges a bit South West of Barcelona and along the Costa Brava coast up North. That's the area you see in the box around Barcelona.

Some weeks ago, we left our marina again for some quiet sailing up North along the coast. We decided to find an even better creek to set anchor, for a peaceful weekend in the nature. As you can see we had a really smooth and comfortable ride up, but on the way back we had to face conditions which made the regular ten hour trip to more than the double and forced us to a couple of stops along the way.

Anyway, the sail up was smooth and wonderful. At some points, the wind died out completely and we had a perfectly sunny day and plenty of time to fish.

We were hoping to get some of those big tunas we told you about but none of them in sight.

Only a couple of small mackerel's and bonito's which were good enough of course. Here one with coriander, lemon, garlic and spring onion, served with grilled potatoes.

In action.

We found a nice creek after Tossa, just in time for the sunset. We were totally left alone in this beauty of the nature, no other boats in sight for the whole stay.

So we anchored the boat, pumped up the dinghy and went out to explore the surroundings.

Beautiful rocks.

I can not in any way tell you how the sunset looked like, as these pictures doesn't give a fair expression, but it appeared like a dream... the last beams of sun covered parts of the mountains in a theatrical way before they disappeared behind the hills. Breathtaking. And the simple moment was so quiet and peaceful. Like a dream.

We paddled further in our small creek to the other side where we discovered some caves..

Inside. Beautiful colors.

Then back to Caos..

Where we ended the night with a cheap but nice bottle of wine.

Early morning and time to go home. This is what we got on the hook just before we left.

When we checked the forecast that morning, they announced wind south-east, wind force: 1-2, but the reality was more like south west 5-6. Crazy ride back and forth. We got seriously exhausted by the 20-23 knots of wind in our face for twelve hours, the 1,5 meter high waves and all that tacking back and forth so we decided to stay over night in Arenys de Mar. Which was pretty nice as well but made us miss one day of work at home. Thank God we're both self employed and able to schedule our days pretty much like we want.

If someone wonders how our home looks like from the inside, in conditions like that. Everything-up-side-down, would maybe be a fair description.

The wind was pretty humble the day after so I took the opportunity to work an hour or so on the way back home from Arenys de Mar... Thank God for the wireless dongle.. Over all it was a very beautiful and peaceful weekend, exactly what is needed after a stressful week of work. /T