29/12/2025
Best Christmas gift ever:
Changes made it to Mallorca.
122 lightning strikes, 44 falling stars, 6 dolphins, and one reed warbler later, we arrived in Palma.
What a journey it has been.
Taking her from the Baltic to Marseille, enduring heavy weather and the Mistral on our way to Barcelona, then waiting for the right time slot to bring her over—electric thunderstorms, huge waves, and boat shows all made it seriously difficult to finally bring her home.
As she is a tough cookie, the Mistral only proved her seaworthiness.
In Barcelona, she was warmly welcomed at the RCNP, home of Mariska, Yanira, and Halloween.
Leaving early in the morning, perfectly timed for the bridge opening, the sea was calm, but the wind was rather strange due to all the thunderstorms around us. At least we had some wind.
The little warbler was the cutest. He spent quite some time with us on board. At first, he was completely exhausted; later, he checked us out, decided we were harmless, and started hopping on our heads and hands. He even spotted a moth—completely invisible to us—and went hunting. We thought he had left us, but he turned around and came back with his lunch. The sweetest thing.
We could see rain all around us, but somehow we were spared. At night, my entertainment to stay awake was counting falling stars and lightning strikes—122 on my watch alone. I never expected that many. And of course, I wished for all our falling-star wishes to come true.
The first one definitely did: not hitting any fast ferry or cruise ship…
In the very early morning, we arrived in Palma. And we are very happy that Changes now has a new home at .
Thank you Jorge Sanz for sailing with us and Andres for organising our overnight stay in RCNBarcelina.
