Blog 1 To Rostock along the former East German N Coast Let me tell you about it.. We left Neustadt on Friday intending to do a 7 hour trip but as we were going well we pushed on to Warnemunde making it 9 hrs but gaining a day in the process and a forecast of bad weather coming so a good place to be holed up. Neustadt is about the size of Henley with water running through the middle back out to a large shallow lake - a sea inlet really. Lots of cobbles and every...

Blog 16 Germany 2015 8 Aug - 2015 Heiligenhafen, Fehmarn, Home In a way there was a sense of completion sailing from Bagenkop in Denmark to Heiligenhafen in Germany, a route we covered at the beginning of our Baltic cruises in 2013. So many ports, harbours, marinas and overnight stops sometimes merge memories together only to be unravelled as, in this case, when we round the long golden sandbank lying parallel with shore where the sun lights the...

Blog 15 Denmark 2015 Aug - 2015 Middelfart, Årøsund, Søby, Bagenkop This part of the voyage becomes a journey homeward, going south towards our final destination for the winter on the north coast of Germany. It is remarkable firstly for the large number of Norwegian boats filling the marinas and all migrating north first thing in the morning. Conversely, at Søby and Bagenkop there are few boats in the "migration" south which aren't German...

Blog 14 to 29 July 2015 Ebeltoft, Tunø, Juelsminde The moment I stepped across the threshold, my breath paused for a second and I felt that eerie presence of people who existed in a previous age, just as I did once in Cyprus, walking across a magnificent mosaic floor, like a Persian carpet, where two thousand years before Roman feet had trod. I was in a cobbled courtyard of low simple buildings which formed the home and works of a dyer of fabrics, Johan Pet...

Blog 13 Denmark 2015 23 July - 2015 Frederikshavn, Sæby, Hals, Grenå, Ebeltoft When I was ten years old, Danny Kaye featured in a film as Hans Christian Andersen. He sang about sailing in the Skagerrak and the Kattegat. I had a rough idea that they were where Norway, Sweden and Denmark kind of get together but only now am I absolutely sure which one is which. A few days ago, at 6 am, we left Göthenberg - Sweden's second city - and sailed the ...