Menorca ⚓: Cala Son Saura

Friday the 18th of April it was finally time for our grand departure. We would leave Mallorca, and therefore Spain, behind and set sail directly to Sardinia or maybe Corsica depending on the wind. Little did we know we would spend another night in Spain, on Menorca.

We were going full speed ahead, going 7-8 knots, reaching 15-20 knots of wind. The sun was shining and we were even sailing in our shorts for a while. It was great. However, especially myself, I needed to get back into the sailing rhythm after weeks of mostly just anchoring. I was doing fine but once we were getting close to Menorca, somewhere early in the evening, we figured it would be good to check the coming wind for the next day as we would sail through the night.

That's when we saw that early the next morning a strong 25+ south easterly wind would meet us somewhere in between Menorca and Sardinia. While the day after, on Thursday, the wind would come in from a more south westerly direction, which would be lovely to cross to Sardinia. Consequently, we decided to spend the night in Menorca. We arrived just before dark and were treated with a gorgeous sunset before we went to bed as we had a long trip ahead of us the next day.Read more