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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
We'd decided to set off relatively early for Kalmar as the forecasters this time all agreed that the wind would be from the south west and that it would be stronger in the afternoon, so we were off in a miniature convoy by 09:15, which is very early for the Smiths! They wanted us to take some photos of Odile under sail, to which of course we obliged and they kindly reciprocated, one photo of each boat duly presented here.
Andy quickly made ...
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
... and in between, people are lighting up at every opportunity. Smoking is not allowed inside, so outside restaurants/stores/trains people are puffing away as fast as they can. They hop off the train at a stop, light up, puff like mad until they have to get back on. Maybe with the universal "free" health care no one worries about cancer. It really is astounding though, we are all so used to not ...
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- Wheelchair accessibility
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