In November it's getting darker and colder, and you so want to escape the city being prepared for winter weather. To take a break from daily worries and plunge into a completely new world, just for a week. The real Peter the Great 18th-century frigate, conquering the Mediterranean Sea, the sunny coast of the Costa del Sol, and the Balearic Islands are ideal for creating such a contrast. We will sail almost four hundred miles across the sea, take a tan on the heated deck, squint in the sun being high in the blue sky, master the naval wisdom, and enjoy amazing landscape and mood of this region.

After Málaga we will be in for the ancient Cartagena or the beautiful quays of Alicante. Then (if we are lucky with a fair wind) the ship will stop in sleepless Ibiza (in fact, not really noisy in November, with the end of the high season). We will call at the port or drop anchor so we can go ashore in a boat, like sailors of the 18th century.

After 7 days of passages and stops, Shtandart, with the help of our hands, legs, strength, energy and ingenuity, will reach Valencia to rest here. A month in a warm city will allow the tired crew to have a rest and do preventative maintenance of ship systems, spars and rigging.

Despite the “resort” passage, we won't forget that Shtandart is a sailing ship, so we are in for a challenging and diverse practice of working with sails, moorings and the anchor. Night passages will be interesting from the point of view of navigation and exploration of the starry sky of the Mediterranean, and in between, under the guidance of the captain, we will make out the theoretical issues of marine science. The weather can always give us issues related to marine meteorology, so we definitely won't be bored.

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