The Festive Season really

by admin · 31/12/2021

Pre-Christmas, Christmas and New Year Parties

The festive season is truly that, a season of parties. The first party was hosted by the Swedish group and it was great fun with special hats and Swedish delicacies. There were Swedish Christmas lighted hats, Viking hats and Santa hats. The party was held at sunset on the dock https://marina.palmasport.es/ that we were all attached to which was crowded, and many of the yachts had Christmas lights!!

Eleuthera Crew in Shirts and Viking Hats

Christmas Brunch

Eleuthera invited the Viking group for a Christmas brunch of champagne and strawberries. Very good turnout to the point where the aft end of each hull was 10cm underwater! We had the traditional New Zealand summer Christmas celebration of champagne and strawberries, a tradition which was quite foreign to most of the group, but they all loved it. A very happy cheerful gathering.

Christmas Lunch

Although the brunch ran on until 1 pm there was just enough time for Pete to cook roast lamb for lunch. Herman and Ute off Thetis joined us for a very relaxing and enjoyable time.

Pavlova had been cooked the day before but had not been cooked through as the oven turned itself off when the chief engineer was checking his generator and shore power dropped off for generator power.

The favorite ginger and fresh cherry cake was perfect though.

Shambles but all sorted on the end and a very relaxing afternoon. Needless to say, there was no dinner!

New Year

After our great success on the first day’s dinner at Embarcadero in Las Palmas https://restauranteembarcadero.com/, we decided to go to the same restaurant for New Years’ eve. The meal was a degustation menu and the food was superb and the whole evening fabulous. Brilliantly organised and timed. We were incredibly lucky and had a marvelous night.