First Hotel Carlshamn
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Tag 16: Tag am Meer
Liege gerade auf einem Felsen in der Sonne und die Beine hängen in der Ostsee. Heute morgen noch vor Mücken und Gewitter geflohen und jetzt das ... Schöne Entschädigung ;-) Heute bin ich durch Almhüdt (bestimmt wieder falsch geschrieben) durch gefahren und hab festgestellt, dass ich da vor 3 Jahren mit dem Rad durchgefahren bin. Ansonsten war ich noch ...
Mamma Mia! What a pretty country.
This morning we must say farewell to Pam & Rob who are flying to London and we will be picking up a car rental which has been booked at the Copenhagen Europcar office.
We all exit the hotel at around 9.30 AM (Pam & Rob have checked out but we are coming back with the car to load up before the check-out time of 12.00 PM) and walk a short distance to the train station where Pam & Rob can get a direct train to the airport. Once they are ...
A Day off
... well alone and try later.
As I said earlier, Karlskrona is a navy town, becoming so in 1680, soon after this part of Sweden stopped being Danish, thereby allowing King Karl XI to take advantage of its ice-free nature in winter and to move the Swedish fleet there from Stockholm. Work then commenced in earnest to fortify the immediate area and so effective was the work that it was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a fine example of a fortified naval ...
More work for the engine
Today we wanted to get to Karlskrona, about another 30 miles. The wind was quite light at 06:15 when we set off but sure enough, after an hour or so, it picked up, on the nose and blowing a good F5 at times – slow progress. At least the sun was shining and the sea became flatter as we approached the small archipelago of islands that form a protective shield to the important naval town of Karlskrona. There is not much to relate about the ...
Julie's encounter with wildlife
... Hanö boasts a small but enterprising little community of some 30 full-time residents. However, this is but a small fraction of the population of the island during the Napoleonic wars, as the British Royal Navy was based here between 1810 and 1812. Every other week, a fleet of several hundred west-bound ships would gather in the sound between the island and the mainland and in 1810, 1000 ships arrived at one time – quite a sight!! Today, all that ...