Well we finally managed to leave Marina do Lorde around 1330 having planned on a 1030 departure! It always takes so much longer than I think it will to get ready!
We have a passage of around three days ahead to get to Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, where I hope to be able to park the boat up until the end of September/early October. It's not possible to book in advance and so it's possible we may have to find somewhere else to park the boat and that will take some time!
Sharon flys out to Las Palmas with Stephen and Ines and their two little ones, on the 12th September to celebrate our wedding anniversary on that day which is one reason for wanting to park the boat for a month or so.
The other is I am fast running out of my 90 schengen days (which started counting down on 31st July when we officially entered Spain by virtue of getting our passports stamped) and am therefore hoping to leave the boat and fly home with Sharon and Co and spend 10 days or possibly longer at home/catching up with friends and family. That way I can 'bank' those shengen days and so delay our departure from the Canaries for the Cape Verde. An added complication is that Mick flys back to the UK on the 6th September and won't return until the 28th October or possibly later if he doesn't get his US visa in time!
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I'll write up our short spell on Madeira whilst on passage.
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