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    Corsica II⚓: Calvi

    24–28 kwi, Francja ⋅ 🌬 14 °C

    Calvi turned out to be a very pretty anchorage. No matter which direction the boat was turned, the view was gorgeous. We had our pick from snowy mountains, white sandy beaches to a picturesque old town. Most of all, swell wise it turned out to be a very good decision to go into this bay. It was super quiet.

    Here we looked up a little bit of history on Corsica to find out about the interesting mix between Italian and French town or street names or words in general. Turns out, Corsicans don't really relate to either the French or Italians, Genovese to be specific, but mostly proudly feel Corsican. Being an island with rich mountains they have adapted to a lifestyle that combines the riches of the sea with those of the earth, mountains specifically.

    In Calvi we both worked a bit, strolled around the old town already enjoyed some, even though we are not really in Italy yet, delicious gelato with cool flavors like chestnut and a typical Corsican flower/herb I can't remember and did some shopping! I found a pair of shorts and two cute summer dresses which are made in the EU! And of course, waited for a weather window for our last leg to Imperia aka Bart's dad! We have found it, Monday the 28th of April we are going 🚀⛵ Or truthfully, we are on the way!     Czytaj więcej

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    Corsica I ⚓: Golfe de la Revellata

    23–24 kwi, Francja ⋅ 🌬 16 °C

    After a couple of relaxing days on board we set sail to Corsica. We have a lovely reaching course while we sail in between Sardegna and Corsica. Once we make it to the western side of the Corsican island, the wind comes in more and more from behind. We are too "busy" enjoying the moment to even take any pictures or videos 😅 The only pictures in my camera roll are some very dark ones in attempt to photograph the impressive starry sky. It looks like we will make it to the anchorage shortly after Bart's second watch. Very sweet of him he doesn't wake me up to take over from him. Little did he know it would take us at least another two hours before we have dropped our anchor. It's another gorgeous bay: crystal clear water, lots of fish and green hills all around. Sailing into the bay we saw some mountains with snowy peaks! Unfortunately, we can't see them from our anchorage.

    Since Bart slept for only 2-3 hours he is having a bit of a rough day. He starts off strong with a sales call! Followed by alternating between watching a tv show and napping. I have a miraculous amount of energy and decide to do a bunch of things in the meantime. I give Lois a call to catch up. Afterwards, I try to catch some sea bream that is circling around the boat. Their Spanish little fishy friend cousins, in Ibiza and Mallorca, proved to be very difficult to catch. The French don't seem to be very smart. Before I know it I have caught two and not much later, under a lot of pressure since Bart woke up and is watching and I proclaimed to be a master fishwive again, I catch another two! I clean them for dinner and I put the heads in the trap so we hopefully catch an octopus. Then I realize I was supposed to tidy up the boat after our sailing trip. Of course, I only start to do this once the wind has already picked up and things start to fly around a bit. Classic 😬

    After a long call with mama, we enjoy a delicious seabream dinner and afterwards call it a day. The next day we do some work in the morning before putting the dinghy in the water to get to land, for the first time since a week!! We hike, in our new birthday hiking boots I look a lot like Dora the Explorer, in the direction of the lighthouse. Along the way we are amazed by the amount of wild flowers here. Everywhere we look, every corner we turn we are surprised by a new or even more colorful flower or plant. The highlight being the overwhelming wall of mysterious pink flowers. I had to show mama so we called her and demonstrated how Bart instead of her was walking around the flowers.🌺

    When we get back to the boat is has gotten quite, okay let's not downplay it, very rolly in the anchorage. We get shaken around from left to right ans up and down. When Bart finally convinces me, as I was working and didn't want to be disturbed, to move it almost 20:00 already. Luckily, it is only a half hour trip to turn the corner to anchor in the bay of Calvi and to discover that from here we can see the snowy (and misty but not so lonely) mountains!     Czytaj więcej

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    Sardegna I ⚓: La Pelosa

    20–22 kwi, Włochy ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    1 day and 11 hours. That's how long, or short, it took us to sail the 196 nautical miles from Menorca to the crystal clear waters of La Pelosa, Sardinia. I don't think we have ever sailed this fast for such a long distance. Boy, were we happy with our decision to stop in Menorca and leave the next morning. Except for the lack of sunshine, the conditions were perfect.

    Again we were sailing at 7-8 knots during the day. While at night it calmed down a bit, which was great. Although, now I think about it, it might have been a little calm at some point wind wise. As the waves were still there and when I got ready to relieve Bart from his first night watch, he's a true brother 🤺, it took me a little too long to get ready so when I got on deck, I felt nauseous. Since I try to continue to eat and drink when I feel sick, I fed the fish not once, not twice but 5 times 😅 Let's focus on the fact I felt a lot better afterwards and for the rest of the duration of the trip.

    When we almost made it to Sardinia we wanted to start the engine. We had to pass through a very narrow opening. So we wanted to have the engine running just in case. Except, it wouldn't start. We hadn't had any sun the entire day, so it might have been a battery issue or it might have had something to do with the start motor. After Bart did a couple of more attempts he instructed me to tap the start motor and voila, next time it did start right away! Luckily... (since then we haven't had the same issue).

    To go through the passage safely we had to follow the beakens from one to the other. Bart did the steering, skip, and I looked at the map and the beakens. We made it through beautifully and arrived at the stunning anchorage. Somehow, the water is even more beautiful and clear than we already had on the Balearic Islands😱 I thought about going in right away but it started raining and getting dark. Instead we celebrated with an anker biertje and another gorgeous sunset.

    We slept like little babies and woke up late. Since it was gray and raining for almost the entire day we had a lazy morning and afternoon. I finished our second 1000 pages Ken Follett book and Bart watched his new tv show before we had a delicious Easter lunch and watched our anchor tv show Heroes. When the sun finally started to peek through a little bit, we went for our swim aka shower! It was pretty cold but too pretty not to go in. After checking the weather we have decided to go as far north as we can tomorrow. We hope to make it to the north of Corsica to use the next favorable weather window to sail to Bart Sr in Imperia🥳     Czytaj więcej

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    Menorca ⚓: Cala Son Saura

    18–19 kwi, Hiszpania ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    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.     Czytaj więcej

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    Port de Pollenca⚓: Back at it again⚒️

    7–18 kwi, Hiszpania ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    A cruiser's life is often described jokingly as: fixing things in beautiful places. After a couple of months of barely any fixing to do, it was about time that we would be due. As described in the previous post we have some troubles with our watermaker. We have always had quite low pressure compared to what it is supposed to be. However right now it looks like the pumps aren't sucking up any water at all, which means we also have zero pressure in the system.

    We had been in contact via email with a supposedly watermaker expert in Palma de Mallorca. At some point he didn't respond anymore and since there is also s big nautic store in Palma we decided to just go there. We took the bus to Palma and rented a scooter downtime to get around quickly. The nautic store felt like a candy shop, as always, and next to my additional curtosy flags (Islas Baleares, Italy, Sardinia and Greece) we also got the things we actually needed. Such as an extra strainer filter for our watermaker.

    We then went to the guy we had been in touch with. He wasn't there and the person who was there unfortunately didn't know much. We jumped back on our scooter and tried another shop. They were much more helpful, unfortunately they didn't have any pumps but they did have the right filters. Additionally, they also gave us some tips about some extra trouble shooting we could try.

    We followed our spare parts search by meeting up with Kiki and Harmen for a drink. Before taking the bus back to Pollenca we enjoyed some burger and fries from the local burger stall we had passed at least 3 times during our different visits to Palma. In hindsight I wish we didn't. We were only on the bus for a short while when I felt a IBS (irritable bowel syndrome or PDS) attack coming. I didn't have a full panick attack, but it took me back to a public transport trauma when I was a teenager. Luckily, I "made it" to the first stop and found a restroom in a KFC of all places. We walked to the next bus stop and after finding some dark spots we got on the bus via Alcudia to Pollenca.

    The next day I needed some time to recover. Bart took on another project: fixing the meter in our watertank. Again, in hindsight, we wish he didn't 😅 Getting it back in without any leaks turned out to be impossible... We just added another thing to fix.

    We had time though, since we are waiting for a weather window to go to Sardinia or Corsica. Looks like there won't be any until the 17 or 18th. So the rest of our time in Pollenca we spend working and trying to fix things. We took apart the watermaker, but no luck so far. Looks like we need new pumps. We did get the windlass (ankerlier) up and running again. Luckily, Square One (Kiki and Harmen) made it to Pollenca as it turned out they had THE spare part we needed to fix our watertank meter issue (or at least good enough for now). We had come up with some work around options with simply putting in a big cork as last resort 😅. But even better it meant that we got to spend some time together and to play some board games before saying goodbye to each other since our ways are parting now for a while. As, we are currently on our way to Sardinia! Ciao!

    PS: I almost forgot our visit to the annual sipia (cuttle fish/zeekat) festival in Alcudia where we were treated with some local folk dance performance by adorable kids     Czytaj więcej

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    P. Pollenca ⚓: Andriessen Triple Trouble

    5–7 kwi, Hiszpania ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    When my family had just left the next family adventure awaited us already: Pleun and Eef. The three Andriessen musketeers complete, in the same place, at the same time. Unique. As usually they are spread across different continents or at least different countries. Crazy enough they have been in the same country for about a month now. We had to take this opportunity.

    For a little while, we thought mom would also join the party, since some mysterious gifts had been delivered to the cantina restaurant right behind our Nimrod while we were away. But Marloes had "only" instructed someone to bring us birthday gifts!!

    We started the good times with a typical, in the absence of Marloes we honored her with her well known, borrelplank and some bubbles to start the festivities on our aft deck. Good company and good conservations made that the time was flying by. As we were all up for some time to relax, we called it night not too late.

    On day two of triple trouble, we sailed a bit before dropping the anchor followed by a relaxed morning. We took the dinghy ashore for a delicious paella, mussels, gambas and patatas bravas lunch. More great conversation, the type you often only have with family, later we were treated with ice cream by Pleun!

    Early the next morning we discovered that our water tanks were empty and we already knew the watermaker wasn't working properly anymore. So from a lovely relaxing sort of boat retreat, we went a bit into camping style. As Bart and I tried to fix the watermaker Pleun and Eef luckily used the time to enjoy the sun and beautiful water. Not long after it was time to say goodbye for now. Leave family time behind us and get back into cruiser's life: fixing your boat in beautiful places.     Czytaj więcej

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    Inca🏡 : Family Time!!

    29 mar–5 kwi, Hiszpania ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    My family is here!! A few hours later than anticipated, but they made it! One of the cabin crews of their plane got sick. At first it looked like they had to wait for hours before they would take off. Luckily, they were only delayed about 2 hours. As they were on their way, Bart and I docked Nimrod in Port de Pollenca and took the bus to Inca to do some groceries already. Little did we know that we would spend 3 hours in the Mercadona. We do love Mercadona, but this was a bit much...

    Turns out, pap had reserved a big decent car, yet we ended up with a lovely Dacia Jogger, because the two extra seats of the initial car didn't work. About another hour later they were on their way. When Bart and I figured the family would almost be there we took the cart fully filled with groceries downstairs to the parking garage. Luckily we brought a football because, as we do best as Flensjes, of course it took a bit longer than anticipated again 😉

    With a car filled to the roof and me stuck in the back, with about only my head sticking out, we drove the last short bit to our gorgeous villa. We started the week off right with some delicious tapas and champagne. The tone was set. This was going to be a good week.

    For a Flensjes family vacation we did a loooot. Where we used to have 3 outings in week back in the day, of which grocery shopping was one, we did something every day! Many thanks to the lil bro and his girlfriend Annet for making a list, an extensive list, of what to see and where to eat.

    From a delicious lunch, on a tricky location for the Dacia Jogger with its massive turning circle, in a beautiful spot, to introducing the family to our walks along the cliff paths, a short and sweet visit to Palma, a hike in the mountains and a day on the water (and having to dive to figure out how to free our anchor chain from underneath a mooring buoy), we did it all! On top of that we celebrated both Bart's (32) and my (30!!) birthdays together.

    We did a lot of fun things, but of course the best part was just to be together as a family for a while and to show them our new life a little bit. Saying goodbye of course came with some tears after such a lovely week together 👩🏾‍🦱👨🏻‍🦲👩🏽‍🦱🧑🏻‍🦱🧑🏽‍🦱👩🏽.     Czytaj więcej

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    Port de Pollença I ⚓

    26–29 mar, Hiszpania ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    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...     Czytaj więcej

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    Port de Soller ⚓

    24–26 mar, Hiszpania ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    After the stormy winds have passed we find an acceptable weather window to sail north to Port de Soller. Since my family is coming to Mallorca for our birthdays we have a bit of a tight schedule. We start the day as we call it "gray and grauw": gray clouds, not a lot of wind and rain. Slowly the gray clouds pass and here and there a little bits of blue sky appear. The wind also gets better and better. After a couple of hours, after a couple of attempts, we hoist our colorful gennaker. Ideal for light winds from reaching to downwind (van achteren). Above 10 knots we prefer not to use our gennaker because she's a beauty, but she has some years on her. So when the wind picks up after a few hours we take down the gennaker and set up a "melkmeisje". After all we have a beautiful sail along the rocky and impressive west coast of Mallorca.

     Port de Soller is one of the very few protected anchorages on this side of the island. It's quite a big bay and it surrounded by mountains. Absolutely stunning! On the other hand, it is also very touristy. The entire bay is surrounded by a boulevard filled with shops, bars, restaurants and veeeery expensive ice cream. We keep it to just one scoop each😉. On top of that a small tram brings heaps of tourists from the coastal town Port de Soller to Soller itself. It's a cute town and the mountain views are gorgeous, but a bit too touristy in our opinion. After 2 good night's of sleep we continue north to Pollenca. There we'll be able to leave Nimrod in the municipal harbor when my family is here.     Czytaj więcej

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    Mallorca III: Port d'Andratx

    21–24 mar, Hiszpania ⋅ 🌬 16 °C

    There was a lot of wind coming so we needed to hide somewhere (35+ knots of wind)! We chose to go to Port d'Andratx and to book a berth in the municipal harbor. We first booked just for a night as we are looking for a weather window to go up North. Unfortunately we quickly realized the strong winds would keep blowing until Monday.

    While we were securely snug like a bug in Port d'Andratx it looked a couple of times like we could have gone out sailing. However within 30 minutes the strong winds and high waves would come back. We decided we had made a good decision and be okay with the fact that we should Stay in a harbor for a couple of days. After all, we had just spent about a month on anchor ⚓⛵

    Port d'Andratx was a very cute town with adorable little traditional or semi-traditional fishing boats. We like to call them dopjes. We did a nice walk to the other side of the bay, got some treats from the bakery and chatted with the baker woman about the NL-ES ⚽ game and by accident enjoyed some waaaaay to expensive drinks on a beautiful terrace on the boulevard.

     From Port d'Andratx we also took the bus to Palma de Mallorca for some sight seeing. It was a surprisingly beautiful city. Especially the cathedral and castle, which we obviously only saw from the outside, and the older smaller streets were gorgeous. For lunch we found a nice tapas bar before taking the bus back home. On Sunday we walked to the pier to look at the violence of the waves chashing into it and we were happy with our decision we didn't go yet. Afterwards, we did some work and went to bed rather late since Spain and the Netherlands decided to take it all the way to penalties!!     Czytaj więcej

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