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2024-11-28 _ Class Afloat _ Tenerife – Mindelo

After a number of days full of sail demonstrations, rope pulling, interviews, ship tours, shopping, and sampling the food and culture of Tenerife, it was time to say goodbye and…

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2024-11-23_Class Afloat – Back to School

It was a busy day yesterday here on the Alex-2. In addition to our regular classes, we also had to do a deep ship clean and sail packing. We want…

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2024-11-18_Class Afloat – We got rained on in the Sahara!

We left our desert glamp camp the way we came: by camel. While we were trekking through the desert, something rare happened: big fat drops of rain started falling. We…

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2024-11-17_Class Afloat – Bustour and Pottery

Much less time on the bus today. We visited a pottery co-op in Tamegroute. A lot/much of the distinctive Moroccan pottery is made here. Spoiler: you can probably guess what…

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2024-11-15_Class Afloat – A tour of Ait Ben Haddou

We started the day with a tour of Ait Ben Haddou, a UNESCO world heritage site. It was a place where caravans used to stop for a rest on their…

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2024-11-14_Class Afloat – Happy Birthday to Liv F!

We didn’t have Colours in the morning so we couldn’t pour buckets of water on her but Jonny made sure she got thrown into the hotel pool at the end…

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2024-11-12_Class Afloat_Fishing and Looking forward to Morocco

We found out the details of our Morocco trip yesterday, and we’re all really excited about it. Looking forward camels, desert camps, night skies full of stars, and so much…

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2024-11-11_Class Afloat_Remembrance Day

Brychan’s global history class helped us commemorate Remembrance Day yesterday with a recitation of „In Flanders Fields,“ and the playing of The Last Post. They also made poppies for us…

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2024-11-10_Class Afloat_Just a regular Day

Just another day at school today. The usual things, you know: a fire drilland abandon-ship drill where we all stood on the main deck with life vestsover our shoulders while…

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2024-11-09_Class Afloat_a very special Dinner

It was a quiet morning on the Alex-2. We saved up all the excitement for later in the day. Jack caught three fish: two got away and broke his heart…

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