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Another Day Another Castle
We bid Abby goodbye for a day and take a driving trip to southeastern Sweden to the town of Kalmar, which was about a four hour drive from Lund. Kalmar is considered the warmest section of Sweden and the adjacent island of Oland is where the current royal family have their summer residence. We went there to see the Kalmar Castle, which dates its …
Day 2 - Off to Kalmar
Had a reasonable nights sleep but was rudely awakened by the sun at 5.30am. Coming from the Australian winter, we were not accustomed to this sort early wake up call. In fact, it never really got fully dark all night but I guess that is due to the fact that we are near the Artic Circle, land of the midnight sun & all that other stuff that I …
Day 3 - Jason & Anna's Wedding
We woke up around 9.00am with slight sore heads and made a beeline downstairs for the buffet breakfast. They are big on bread over these parts and it is damn fine bread too. Piled my tray high with cereal and yoghurt, bread and cream cheese. My waistline did not need the bread and cheese but as it was there, I took advantage of it. After breakfast …
Our First Summer Day!
Today was going to be a r&r day, just a few chores and some shopping. It was also, in truth for the first time this summer, genuinely warm and sunny. We've had sunny days aplenty but they have always had an edgy cold breeze associated with them but today was more like the 'normal’ Baltic summer weather, warm and balmy.
We did our washing, I cleaned and put the bikes away (not ...
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 ...