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A Short Hop up the Coast
... of people strolling, including at least 8 lifeguards which we saw, with nothing to do as there was no-one in the water. As always, the whole area was clean and the people pleasant but I'm afraid we weren’t enamoured, it all looked too new and purpose-built, which I suppose it was. What did impress me was the wall separating the beach from the road – it was polished granite or ...
A Lazy Day
... 10:00, their plan was to go just around the corner to the next harbour up the coast and where we intend to go too, namely Grömitz. As it happened, they got such good winds that they decided to continue an additional 20 miles or so and ended up in Heiligenhafen, very close to Fehmarn.
It was quite a pleasant sunny day and we planned on doing not very much, some washing, some shopping and a walk during the ...
Great Sailing
... or whatever it is that constitutes the harbour in Neustadt. It is quite an impressive harbour, with room for 340 boats in boxes all the way up. As it is so stretched out, the council had kindly laid on toilets, showers and washing machines at regular intervals, 8 in all. Very accommodating. Equally accommodating, not that they had any choice, were Andy and Pauline and Odile. I say they had no choice as they weren’t there ...
Last day with Helen
... to use the remaining alongside berth, his actually! He was not using it so he was fine for us to do so, so with Andy's help we pulled CW off Odile (as it were) and parked her in the harbourmaster’s berth. Odile then left and we were on our own, the last Brits in the harbour.
After lunch, we decided upon a walk and crossed the river with the smaller ferry at the mouth, our plan was to walk ...
Away from the Madding Crowd
... we did our bit to help by hosing down the decks.
It was a lovely sunny day again as we bade our farewells to those boats that hadn't already gone, like migrating birds scattering. Our plan was to simply motor up the river Trave a ways and find an anchorage, which we did about 4 miles upriver, a lovely peaceful spot, with only one other, pretty as it happens, boat there. Once settled in, we sunbathed, swam (yes swam, encouraged and led by Helen and it ...