Leaving Lanzarote 29th November

We are leaving Lanzarote today, one day later than planned but with good winds forcast today. All the food is stored after a mega shop on Wednesday. Those of you who know us well will have seen our normal shopping and so can imagine the amount of food we now have on board for ten of us for a few weeks. We are hoping the passage will take no longer than four weeks but you must aways have food for at lease double that. Sorting fresh veg is not easy; we have rigged up nets at the stern of Octopus to store most of it.

The weather has improved over the last couple of days and we enjoyed a drive around the island sightseeing. We visited Fire Mountain, where they cook food over the still hot volcano vents, we went down some under ground caves made by the lava and we rode on camels.

The girls have made friends with a family with four children from Belgium on another catamaran; they will be following us in a few weeks, so we may meet them again.

Ruth and Rob have settled in fine and are a great help with everything. The children are already very fond of them.

We will not up-date the Blog now until we reach the other side of the pond! We would love to get there for Christmas but may not, so Happy Christmas to you all just in case we can’t send our greetings on time, hope you all have a good one! We will write again as soon as we can.

Camel ridding and views of Lanzarote