Ep. 16 - Sailing to PARADISE: Are We Going to Stay Here FOREVER?

It was a difficult decision for us to make; not crossing the Atlantic Ocean in early 2022, but to postpone and go only after this summer. But with the decision to stay we also have the opportunity to deep dive into the Canaries (not literally, as the water is so much more chilly than it is in the Caribbean :-)). We explored every corner of La Gomera, spending way more time than 'sailors on a schedule' usually have. Therefore we kind of lost the feeling of traveling. Instead it feels more like our new lifestyle: living aboard Zeezot, climbing every mountain, smelling all the flowers we encounter during our walks, leaving footprints on all beaches. In this episode we share some of our 'little chunks of happiness' with Linda who visits us (remember her from Portugal?). After she leaves we feel ready for a new island? La Palma here we come! And La Palma for us just is paradise. Nature on this island is so incredibly diverse, abundant and amazing. Fruit trees everywhere you look (with yummy avocados, oranges and nispero's (Japanese loquat)), countless flowers blossoming in yellow, purple, pink,?, rain forests with waterfalls, wild and abandoned beaches, volcanoes, pine forests. And above all that you can find the cutest and colourful houses fringing the narrow cobbled streets of the capital Santa Cruz. In short: we fell in love with the island. And we seriously discuss to take all the savings for our journey, buy a small cute finca with some surrounding fruit trees and stay on La Palma forever. Watch to see what will be our decision... However, we strongly advise you to go visit the island to absorb the beauty yourself as pictures and videos just don't do justice to the abundance you will find here. But please do watch our video, just to have a little bit of voorpret / Vorfreude (pre-happiness; why isn't there a word in English for such a nice thing??) before you travel here ;-) And if you like it as much as we do, please leave us a thumbs up!