a relaxing weekend to “start the jump to the Atlantic”

Leonor’s first stopover aboard the Elcano. The training ship moored in the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife early this morning on Friday the 17th, as marked on its journey. It was the first stop of the 97th Training Cruise, which yesterday Thursday sailed off the coast of the Canary Island. For the Princess of Asturias and the 75 midshipmen who study with her it will be four days in Tenerife, from there Elcano will cast off to head to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where she will arrive on Tuesday the 21st.

Leonor boarded the historic ship in the bay of Cádiz on January 11. A goodbye that left us the most emotional images of his parents, the Kings. Mobile phone in hand, Felipe VI recorded his daughter, who waved from the deck with her hat in her hand. Doña Letizia, on tiptoe, looked at the screen of her husband’s phone. He also couldn’t contain his tears of emotion. The Princess of Asturias wore her navy blue Navy uniform, the same one she wore at Military Easter and the same one she wore at the National Holiday.

Upon her arrival in Tenerife, in the very first photo in front of the Tenerife port dock, Leonor has been wearing her white uniform, in the form of a short-sleeved shirt and white pants. He has a decoration pinned to his shirt. In white it would be the version that adapts to a temperate climate, as is the case of the Canary Islands.

From the deck, along with the rest of her companions, the princess waved her hat with the Navy cookie to greet the neighbors who were in the port and who welcomed them from the dock.

In the port, the media have had the opportunity to record the words of the ship captain, Luis Carreras-Presas do Campo, who highlighted what “the first days at sea” were like: “We have come from Cádiz to here with an extraordinary wind which has allowed us to sail practically all the time,” the captain told the press. Everything is ready in Elcano to head to Las Palmas and “begin the jump to the Atlantic” which will be where “the midshipmen’s learning phase” takes place,” he stressed. Until then, Leonor and her colleagues will carry out cultural and professional visits in Tenerife. A relaxed weekend to get to know the island.