Life aboard

Now we are settling into our daily cruising schedule. The girls are waking up at 8am, breakfast takes a couple of hours, then it's off to the beach and play parks, shopping for milk, bread and so on, then a late lunch, Maggie's nap, and before you know it, it's 4pm. We are setting realistic targets for each day, everything takes forever here, whether it's the long trek to the Post Office (Isla sets the pace) or a trip to the chandler (costly in terms of time as well as money).

Things have reopened after Easter and with any luck our liferaft, anchor hook and spare engine parts will start arriving and we can head towards the Balearics.

The girls are enjoying the great Spanish hospitality, a free bracelet here, chocolate biscuits there, it's so refreshing to take them into a welcoming culture.

Life aboard with the girls means listening to their choice on the stereo. Mamma Mia mostly. Maggie used her special toddler senses to find the way to get Super Trouper, her favourite song, on repeat on the ipod. 15 minutes and a reset finally put an end to it.