Port de Pollença I ⚓

For those of you who have known us before this sailing adventure, you might remember our not so successful "Christmas 2023 at Vlieland". It all started in 2022. It has become a bit of a Dutch sailing tradition to spend New Year's Eve on Terschelling, one of the islands in the Waddenzee. In 2022 we attempted to go there. Long story short, we didn't make it and we ended up cheersing to 2023 in Makkum, Friesland, in the middle of nowhere. In 2023 we thought that's not going to happen to us again! This year we will take 2 weeks to get Terschelling and while we are at it, we will invite our families to Vlieland to celebrate Christmas at the Nimrod. Well, we did celebrate Christmas at Vlieland that year. But we had to take the ferry and Nimrod was still in Enkhuizen (but, yes we did make it Terschelling for New Year's that year).

Since my family is coming to Mallorca and we had booked a berth, pretty close to where we would stay as a family, in Pollenca we had a deadline and a challenge. Will we make it to Pollenca on time OR will it be Christmas on Vlieland 2023 2.0.

Challenge accepted and challenge succeeded! Wow what a trip it was from Port de Soller to Pollenca. Amazing wind, another gennaker day and on top of that a small pod of 3 dolphins accompanied us for at least an hour. At the same time that the gennaker was up!! All the while we were cruising by the highest mountains and rocky coast of Mallorca 😍 Some of them looked like the rock from the Lion King, naturally I had to...Read more