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Travel Blogs from Kalmar
Our First Summer Day!
... of the sheet incident but also we’re now going to be in more saline conditions and they would rust very quickly if left on deck). We visited the cathedral, it was nothing special so I won’t include any photos (done enough churches etc!) and that is about it. Drinks at 18:00 with Andy and Pauline, a couple of Skype calls and then dinner. So endeth a boring day blog-wise but we enjoyed ...
Sailing can be a SLOW business
... that sailing would not be an option for him so he set off motor-sailing. We, being made of sterner stuff, decided to sail –actually for sterner stuff read more naiive as after one hour’s sailing effort in the F4 winds we were precisely 1.3 miles further south ie towards Kalmar. So we used the engine with a full main and the stay’sl and in this way we were making 4 miles or so southwards in every hour, arriving a good hour after Odile ...
A Lesson Learned
A word on forecasts. For the yachties, there are a multiplicity of choices available today, largely thanks to the internet. There is everything available from raw observational data from weather stations and buoys through to predictions made by computer models and presented graphically to the same models taken and interpreted by professional meteorologists. Given all this choice there is almost bound to be some discrepancies but what we have found, in common ...
Traveling on
... bars with heaters and lounge furniture and come complete with fleece throws-very cozy and comfortable. Fulll of beautiful young people. Bikes outside the bars and restaurants as the who downtown area is closed to cars and it seems to work! Other than herrring the food had been good but not unique. Having a mixed drink was fun-we usually stick to beer-The bartender came and got the recipe for a lemon drop from me. ...
The people
... you come across after crossing the draw bridge is a play area for the kids, complete with model horses on a track so the kids can pretend to joust with wooden swords. All of the castle workers are in period costume and you do get a sense of medieval life, not for the faint of heart. Tomorrow we are back on the train to Stockholm. Train travel in Europe is wonderful, one thing we could really imitate back ...