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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 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

From Córdoba, our road trip continued towards Granada. We chose the middle of three main routes to see more landscapes than driving between the sound barriers of the largest highway. Olive groves stretched uninterruptedly along the entire 175-kilometer journey. Now

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

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 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

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

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