Monday, July 14, 2014

Harborday Öckerö/Sweden - 07/13/2014

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Today we spend a very relaxed rainy day in Öckerö. Whenever the rain stops, we go out for a walk. The best place is up on a rocky hill, where we have a good view over the skerry and this part of the north Gothenburg archipelago. The other part of the day we spend with doing the laundry, shopping and...

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Öckerö/Sweden - 07/12/2014

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From Laesø/Denmark to Öckerö/Sweden, distance 31.4 NM, weather: sunny, wind 3-4 NE turning NW, temperatur 22°C The new plan is now to go for the westswedish skerries north of Goteborg and travel in short  trips up to the north as far as we get until we have to turn and go back to be home...

Laesø/Denmark via Skagen - 07/11/2014

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From Hals/Denmark to Laesø/Denmark via Skagen, distance 83 NM, weather:sunny, wind 3-4 NE, temperature 25°C Todays story is kind of strange... We leave Hals/Denmark early in the morning still convinced, that the best plan for our journey is to go for long distances in the beginning, then go back slowly...

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Hals/Jutland Denmark - 07/10/2014

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From Grenaa/Denmark to Hals/Denmark, distance 43 NM, weather: sunny, 25°C, wind Baufort 3-4 NE, watertemperatur 20°C Our summer vacation starts and we are leaving Grenaa/Denmark under good conditions: Madita is packed as if we plan to do 3-4 circumnavigations and the sun is shining.. Since we want...

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Bridges

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Traveling the Baltic Sea once in a while you have to pass under bridges. Some impressions: ...

Neglect

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There are essentially three types of ships in the harbors: Loved and well maintained one, regularly used ones and ships, which are abandoned... ...

Monday, July 7, 2014

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Evening Orth/Fehrmarn Germany

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On our way from winter depot in Lübeck/Germany to Madita's place for the summer in Sønderborg/Denmark we stopped for one night in Orth/Fehrmarn Germany and had a wonderful late spring evening: ...

Friday, July 4, 2014

Shipbuilder Museum - Bassholmen/Sweden

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Last year we visited Bassholmen/Sweden. This little place is located within a natural reserve at the inner westswedish skerries close to Orust. In older times ships were built at a small dockyard. Nowadays a museum tells about this excellent craft. We had a good time there, discovering a lot and...

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Spot of the week - Nysted/Lolland Denmark

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There are places which I simply like a lot, without knowing why I like them so very much. There is a special atmosphere. Proof that a place is indeed of this kind is, when returning after a while and you still feel the same. Nysted definitely is one of these places to me. Located in a bay at the...

Ernst Barlach Museum/Hamburg Germany

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One of my favorite artists, who influence my thinking about art from early age on is the German sculptor Ernst Barlach (1870-1938). Located within the Jänisch-Park in Hamburg's west is the Barlach Museum, where these pictures were taken. ...

Ships

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One good thing about going sailing is all the beautiful other ships around at sea or in the harbors: ...

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Churches

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Exploring a new place we are always happy when finding the churches open for a visit. Especially the small fisher's churches at the coast of the Baltic Sea are of a certain earnest beauty. Søby/Aerø Denmark ...

Lieschen Müller

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One day in October a few years ago, we found a little kitten in the gras, probably 3-4 weeks old and no mother to see around....What could we do? we took her in the house fed her by hand and called her Lieschen Müller. She grew to be a beautiful, independent, intelligent, wild thing. Unfortunately...

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Giraffes at Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen/Germany

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There was a giraffe's head in our car! At the Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen/Germany giraffes are not very shy and they love to have a good look at what is inside your car. There are many other exciting animals, but we love the giraffes best, so please have a look the attached video of them :-) ...

Lübeck/Germany

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In autumn 2011,  we made some use of having lost Madita's mast. We went to Lübeck, a small town in northern Germany with about 200.000 inhabitants. Lübeck has a very beautiful historic center located on an island between the rivers Trave and Wankenitz. That is where being...

Berlin-Mitte/Germany

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One probably would need a whole blog on it's own to come up to give a complete picture of Germanys capital city Berlin. Here, only a few impressions from our weekend trip earlier this year. All pictures are taken at the district Berlin-Mitte, the old and new center of the city. ...

Visitors in the garden

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What I liked most about the place where we lived before we moved to Hamburg, that is was very much within the nature; a fact that brought uninvited transient visitors.... ...
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