Today's sail to Berg is across Lake Roxen started off cloudy but by lunch time we were anchored in a flat calm bay in beautiful sunshine. There is a yacht mooring at both the bottom and top of the flight of locks. We stayed at the lower one.There are 11 locks here with a 30 M rise in hight, it's an interesting place to spend a few day's watching boats. We have spent 3 nights her now without moving on, our plan is to sail back into the lake tomorrow and down to a ...

We stopped in the middle of the flight of locks for last nights sleep on a small Bankside mooring and enjoyed a walk and quite night. Our plan was to travel here before a day of rain on Friday and watch the England game in a local bar. We woke to the rain a day early, not heavy but persistent, we traveled anyway, seeing only 2 other yachts moving. Norsholm is a small place, smaller than I thought. There are a few cafes but not one had a TV in so we were unable to...

Söderköping is only 3 NM from Mem and 3 locks, we are moored side too right in the centre. There were about 15 boats waiting for Monday morning, the start of the free flow for traffic on the canal. Trevor and Lesley had to be here to catch a bus home, by 12.30 so I knew we were going to struggle. At 08.00 we moved right to the front, outside the lock then waited till 09.00 for the office to open. I was first to register and we locked in at 10.30 and arrived her...

The Gota canal starts at Mem but does not fully open till Monday. You can enter earlier but you need to book four days ahead,if you are unable to be there, they will fine you up to 500 skr. We arrived on Saturday evening to find approximately ten other boats wailing for Monday. Trevor and Lesley are leaving us Monday lunch time after spending a good holiday with us. We need to get signed into the canal at 09.00 the cover about 5 kilometres and 3 locks to get the...

We did not expect to be here, I had looked at the charts and had thought we could head up to the canal without coming up this high but on closer inspection last night I spotted a bridge with only 15 M clearance, we need at least 18.5 M so we had to come up past it. It's so quiet here compared to last year one month earlier, only a few a yachts in. Trevor and Lesley took us out for a meal last night and we saw the opening match of euro 16