Las Palmas, Gran Canaria

hey there

a few days ago we arrived at gran canaria after a very sunny passage from lanzarote.
very little winds again, had to use the engine once more. but there was something special nevertheless: in lanzarote we met a guy with an engine problem whose two crew members had to get to las palmas to catch their flights in time but he still had to wait for the engine to be fixed. so we just took one of them with us, a man round 70, quite a nice experience.

later on the trip we managed to catch a so called dolphin-fish, see photo. at the end and after cooking it there was not much left but it was tasty.

we were really looking forward to get here particularly for one reason: as we arrived we cold meet an old friend from the charterboat- scene, albert.
really funny to meet someone from "home" on such a place and after such a long time.
so of course it's partying a lot but he also has a little maintenance job for us on the boat he's travelling with which is a good opportunity for us to make some money for the trip.

before the passage to gran canaria we first went down south of lanzarote where we found a very nice anchorage and snorchelled a lot. we were travelling together with another swedish friend, marc who is solo sailing at the moment (see photo).

we will stay here for probably five or six more days before we go down south to playa des inglés where we hope to reunite with our other swedish and norwegian friends.

there we'll wait for fair winds to go down to the capverdian islands, our last stop before the great passage.

further we're having the time of our lives here, the climate is just perfect, we're swimming a lot and we're living quite cheap finally, anchoring saves a lot of money, albert too.

let's see now if our boat's still there, we were drifting al lot tonight.
as always you'll hear from us,
greets jan and laszlo