30^th April   SANTA EULALIA

38 58.9 N   01 32.3 E

Early start for a long day, we left at 7, Chris and Bev opposite slipping their lines a minute or two before us. They were heading for Puerto de Antonio, we for Santa Eulalia.

The wind was pretty much behind us, and we were going across a fairly large swell, so corkscrewing a bit, but used motor and genoa and had a reasonably comfortable if long ride, though a lot of concentration when in the larger swells. We could see Ibiza clearly after about 90 mins, but it felt endless getting there. Our paths diverged, and last saw C and B about 1 pm.

Once we past through the channel between Ibiza and Formentera wind and sea dropped, we had a really easy ride to Santa Eulalia – pine woods you could smell. We berthed at 18.10. Hardly ate all day, seemed a bit much to expect S to go below and make sandwiches with everything banging around, and by late afternoon we thought we’d wait to eat out ashore.

 There was a boat show going on in the marina, loads of restaurants and bars. The marina wifi, which I’d paid for was complete crap (really frustrating, you want to upload blog, internet bank, check emails etc, and just can’t do it. O2 helpfully texted me today to tell me I’d spent £62 more than my monthly charge this month – and I turned off 3G 3 weeks ago. Outrageous. They’re prepared to sacrifice a generation of Spanish – and Greek – youth on the altar of the Euro, yet allow predatory pricing by telcos across the so called Common Market)

We ate at an Italian place which did allow us wifi (most restaurants do in Spain. Doesn’t do anything for intelligent conversation over dinner….)

Today did 72 NM, longest single day of trip.