On Midsummer Saturday, our journey continued eastward from Fuengirola. It was clear that we had unmistakably arrived in the Mediterranean. As other sailors have told, in the summer the Mediterranean is either windless or wind is blowing more than you
After a relaxing night’s sleep, we lifted the anchor in Sotogrande and set sail towards Fuengirola, where our friends were waiting for us. We immediately hoisted the sails, both the main and the genoa. The wind was blowing from the
The summer sailing finally began as we cast off the lines at Alcaidesa Marina in La Línea de la Concepción. It was time to bid farewell to another winter berth of Suwena and turn the bow towards new adventures. The
Gibraltar is surely familiar to everyone, and its Spanish border town is La Línea de la Concepción. La Línea is a bustling, small industrial city with a population of about 63,000. The common border between Gibraltar and its northern neighbor
Suwena spent the winter season of 2023 at its berth in Alcaidesa Marina in La Línea de la Concepción, in Southern Spain. Gibraltar became familiar to us, as it was only a short 650-meter walk from the marina gate to
The Andalusian road trip reached its peak on the fourth day of our journey as we set out from Granada in the morning to drive up to the Sierra Nevada mountains. The winding roads raised steeply into the mountains and
At the end of a pleasant afternoon drive, we arrived in Córdoba. We had booked a hotel a couple of kilometers away from the city center, allowing us to conveniently park the car in the hotel’s courtyard and to be
The boating season of 2023 began with familiar spring chores on Suwena and various maintenance tasks. However, before starting the hard work, we decided to embark on a four-day road trip to the gems of Andalusia. Just a few hundred
At the end of the autumn sailing trip, it was time to return to Suwena’s future winter home, Alcaidesa Marina. The 21 nautical mile journey from Duquesa began in beautiful sunshine, and there was no wind at all, so the
Around Fuengirola, there are many other marinas, such as Torremolinos towards Málaga or Marbella and a little further west is Civitas Puerto Banús, which is the jet set place of Costa del Sol. We had the last days of our
