Sailing Blog 2019

Neither of us had been to Madeira before and expected it to be similar to the Canary Islands which are only about 300 miles south. We couldn’t have been more wrong… Madeira is a very lush island with a lot of vegetation and rugged volcanic peaks. Some areas have a Read more…

In May 2019 we started our trip to Madeira intending to continue on to La Palma (Canaries) in late September. The first thing to do was to go into Gibraltar itself and fill up with the really cheap diesel fuel there – 0.83€/litre instead of 1.24€/litre in the marina. It Read more…