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| The adventure begins with your arrival in Gibraltar on Sunday afternoon when you will be introduced to your fellow crewmates, shown your berth and around your floating home for the next 12 days our beautiful yacht, Pacific Star. The following morning after a full safety briefing we set off from Marina Bay, Gibraltar out into the Straits and head east into the Mediterranean. We spend the next two nights at sea, sailing the boat and working an appropriate watch system, giving each crew member an opportunity to experience the thrills of sailing at night. By Wednesday morning we will be approaching the Spanish port of Cartagena on the Costa Calida. Cartagena is Spain’s main naval port and has a lively and interesting harbour. Along the road beside the port and the marinas, you can visit the barrio de Santa Lucia, an isthmus linked to the City by a strip of land. This is the true fishermen’s district, where you may sit and watch the colourful exhibition of the boats preparing to go out to sea, or the competitors of Latin-rig boats leaving the adjacent Regatta Club, while you taste some fried fish, squid or octopus at any of the open-air bars by the shore. After an overnight stop in Cartagena we are off again on our next leg of roughly 150 nm to Ibiza Town on the Eastern side of the island, arriving Friday afternoon. Ibiza is the third largest of the Balearic Islands and together with Formentera forms the 'Pitiusas' islands, as the Greeks called them, and it means 'islands of pine trees'. The island has 80.000 inhabitants and enjoys an excellent climate with an average annual temperature of 21.5° C maximum and 14° C minimum. Once we are berthed up in the marina, you are free to sample the hedonistic delights of Ibiza Town. The following morning we slip the marina and do a short hop to one of the most beautiful anchorages in Spain, Playa Espalmador. This is a delightful, tranquil and sheltered spot, where you can enjoy a light lunch on board or dive into the crystal clear sea and swim - or take our dinghy - a short distance to a beach that would not look out of place in the Caribbean!. However, do not be alarmed by the strange people wandering along the beach covered from head to toe in grey mud, because a short hike behind the beach through the dunes are mud baths, great fun and reputed to be anti ageing. We’re not sure it works though, one of our skippers tried it and he still looks 64! Once relaxed and refreshed we weigh anchor and head for Puerto de Savina on the Island of Formentera, we spend a chilled out night there in the small fishing port before heading North west on Sunday morning to the port of San Antoni. Once a small fishing village this is now a lively tourist spot with some great bars and clubs to tempt you off the boat! After a re-provisioning trip to the local markets we are off again on Monday, this time on our way back to mainland Spain, heading for Almeria, arriving Wednesday am. The city of Almeria is the capital of the province of the same name, and founded by the Moors in 955AD it has an impressive Moorish Castle, the second largest in Spain next to the Alhambra. Thursday sees our final leg of the adventure with another overnight passage arriving in Gibraltar on Friday lunch time. |
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