Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Sea Holly

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When we had a nice walk at the beach of Glommen/Sweden this summer, we found wild Sea Holly. Although this plant looks so strong and well-fortified on on hand and so fragual growing just in sand on the other hand, actually it is on the Red List of highly endangered plants. Since the coastal preservation...

Art 2015 II

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 Coastline Als/Denmark - 2015 - Acrylic on Canvas - 24x18cm - $200 available at Saatchi Online SkagenDenmark - 2015 - Acrylic on Canvas - 24x18cm - $200 available at Saatchi Online Sea  - 2015 - Acrylic on Canvas - 24x18cm - $200 available at Saatchi Online  Soby/Denmark -...

Art 2015 I

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Noon in Arles /France - 2015 - Acrylic on Canvas - 24x18cm - $200 available at Saatchi Onlin...

Monday, December 28, 2015

Vejro/Denmark - 08/21/2015

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That day we sailed 81.74 NM. We wanted to reach Vejro today, since for the following days heavy winds were predicted. We started at 5:30 am.... We already had quite some wind and at noon, when reaching the chalk rocks close to Rodvig/Saejland, we took a break there and had lunch and a short walk at...

Kobenhavn/Denmark - 08/20/2015

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After our sightseeing tour at Castel Kronborg, we started for the 22.2 NM to Denmark's capital Kobenhavn. It was a easy drive and arrived at the harbor Lange Linie later that afternoon. The evening we spent exploring the inner city. The children were very impressed by the change of guards at the royal...

Sunday, December 27, 2015

Castel Kronborg Helsingor/Denmark - 08/20/2015

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We took our time to explore Castel Kronborg in Helsingor. When this castel was built in the 16th century word spread in Europe how magnificent and beautiful it was. Although the famous english poet Shakespeare had never been to Helsingor, he most likely felt fascinated by the reports about Castel Kronborg...

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Glommen/Sweden - 08/18/2015

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Not much was going on in Glommen.....Not even the fish shop, we read about in the pilot, existed anymore....some people told us, all fish is brought to a large fish factory somewhere else..... At the beach near by the harbor, there is a huge rock called Glommen, which gave the name to the village and...

Fortress Varberg/Sweden - 08/18/2015

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After a long day sailing the day before, we took it more easy and started the day by exploring the Fortress Varberg. We were too early for the museum, but the whole complex of buildings was very interesting anyway. The first fortress was built here in the 13th century by an danish...

Varberg/Sweden - 08/17/2015

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At that point of the journey, we felt rather short of time and therefore made it a day full of sailing. we did 51,24 NM that day and arrived in Varberg in the evening when the sun was about to set. ...

Friday, December 25, 2015

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Rörö/Sweden - 08/16/2015

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Rörö was definitely one of the most beautiful places we visited this summer! Since we were there at off-season, it was not crowed (what I assume would be the case in main season...) and the nature of the natural reserve was just beautiful! I liked especially the fresh water pond with water lilies close...

Ellös/Sweden - 08/15/2015

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Wolfgang started antibiotics that day and we made a short trip of 10 NM to Ellös. No much was going on in Ellös, but it is the town of the very famous Haller-Rassay shipyard and we had a neighbor at the pontoon with a rather unusually ensign.....take a close look at the pictures ;-) ...

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Reso/Sweden - 08/13/2015

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There was no wind today, so it took us back to Sweden by engine.  At that point it definitely felt like being on the ay back, although a whole bunch of vacation days were left. What made the mood even worse, that Wolfgang had a really sore throat with high fever and had to spend the rest...

Nordre-Sandor/Norway - 08/12/2015

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At that day, we took an even shorter trip of about 5 NM. But before reaching the remote bay of Nordre-Sandoy, we a a quick break in Skjerhalden, buying wonderful fish in a shop directly at the harbor (pst...we have been here before ;-) It was a quiet day with delicious grilled fish, an afternoon...

Ekevika-Singløya/Norway - 08/11/2015

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At this day, it was only a short trip of 20 NM and we took the beautiful way through the Hankosund. After leaving the protection of the sund, the wind was getting kind of rough, but after being on board now for some time, no-one is feeling sea sick anymore and the spirits were high. And then we reach,...

Monday, December 14, 2015

Engelsviken/Norway - 08/10/2015

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We left Haoya in the morning for Engelsviken. We have been to this natural harbor bay at the East side of the Oslo Fjord twice before: One time last summer  and in 2012 by car, when we took the Colorline ferry to Oslo in the autumn... We like this small suburban town, with a few craftsman's...

Haoya/Norway - 08/09/2015

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After a wonderful morning at the Fram Museum we started going back Southward, down the Oslo Fjord.  Todays stop was at Haoya, an larger island close to Oscarsborg. Apparently there had been quite some agriculture on this island. These days some houses are for rent as vacation homes, some are abandoned.  we...

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Oslo - Fram Museum/Norway - 08/09/2015

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For the next morning the plan was to visit the Fram Museum. From the royal sailing club to the museum it was an almost 2 km walk through a lovely mansion district with beautiful houses. The Fram Museum was definitely THE highlight of our vacation to me. I started to read Nansen's "Farthest North" a...

Oslo - Dronningen/Norway - 08/08/2015

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After a really pleasant morning in Oscarsborg, we were on our way to Oslo. It was a nice trip up the Oslo Fjord. In Oslo we choose to stay at the royal sailing club, since it is rather close to the Fram Museum we plan to visit the next day. In order to explore a bit of Oslo again (we have...

Oscarsborg/Norway - 08/08/2015

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Since we had a day long traveling the day before, we took our time to explore Oscarsborg. Oscarsborg is located in the Oslo Fjord controlling a narrow point. A Fortress was but 1844-45. Three cannons, which were constructed by Krupp in Germany, are installed here. They are named Moses, Aron and Josva....
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