Don Juan Carlos returns to Sanxenxo to haggle
Don Juan Carlos will return to Sanxenxo (Pontevedra) and his long-awaited regattas this weekend. After suspending his visits scheduled for June and early July because the weather instability forced the suspension of the regattas in which he had planned to participate, finally, he will go to Galicia this weekend coinciding with the V Circuit of the Spanish League of the 6M Class.
Although weeks ago it was considered that the monarch would arrive in Sanxenxo on Thursday the 27th to participate in the regattas that will begin on Friday the 28th, finally, his arrival has been brought forward and he is expected in the early afternoon of this Wednesday, July 26. He will fly to Vigo airport in a private plane and will travel in the car of his friend Pedro Campos to Sanxenxo.
In this way, it is expected that the day of his arrival will be spent resting and recovering from the trip from Abu Dhabi, where he has his residence, and on Thursday he will focus on a training session with the Rascal team, the boat owned by Pedro Campos who usually captains when he participates in the regattas.
In Sanxenxo, Don Juan Carlos is expected to stay at the house of his friend Pedro Campos, president of the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo, where there is already a security device prepared, and that his stay is marked by discretion and a low profile. , with features similar to his visit last April.
The Sanxenxo Yacht Club considers this visit a private event that will not have extraordinary acts or activities. The goal is to return to normality prior to his exile in Abu Dhabi in August 2020.. After abdicating in Felipe VI and leaving his public activity, he used to go to Sanxenxo once a month during the entire regatta season and his visits did not arouse media, citizen or political interest, but had become normal.
This visit by the former head of state is the third since he established his residence in the United Arab Emirates, after a highly publicized one in 2022 and a more discreet one in April of this year..
With this trip, he seeks to prepare to participate in the sailing world championships to be held on the Isle of Wight, in the United Kingdom, between August 28 and September 8, to revalidate the title of world champion he won in 2019. On his trip in April he could not do it because the weather conditions only allowed him to go out to sea for a few hours, during the training phase of the II Volvo Autesa Cup regatta of the Spanish League of the 6M Class, three hours on his first day in Spain and barely an hour the second day. Over the weekend, he stayed ashore.