We spent five days in Madrid. Had a great time there. We stayed at an apartment instead of a hotel. That was a better way for us. There was more space and we had a full porch overlooking an interesting street with lots of local color.The apartment was centrally located and we could walk everywhere we wanted to go. I tried out my spanish at every opportunity. 

 

We travelled by train to southern Spain when we left Madrid. Saw lots of mountains and miles and miles of olive trees. La Linea, next to Gilbraltar, was were we were to meet Chronos, a 150 ft sailing ship. Tess has posted more detail previously. I will be continuing the blog.

Chronos did show up as planned. She was a beautiful ship. There were a total of fifteen guests and eight crew. We left La Linea the next day and made an unscheduled stop in Cueta on the north african coast. The crew had stopped there before arriving at La Linea to drop off a boom for some repairs. After retriving the boom, we were back off into the Mediterranean. The ship went through the Strait of Gilbraltar. We said goodbye to the "rock" and met the expanse of the Atlantic. We turned south toward the Canaries. We felt like Bogart and Bergman as se saw the night glow of Casablanca on the eastern horizon. 

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