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 ...

Blog 11 Christiansø It was my intention to lump Christiansø in with the Bornholm blog even though it is 30 odd miles away I think it is considered to be part of the package - but it is very special. On arriving at this small rocky fragment of Denmark you enter a world as it existed well over 100 years ago - the harbour fills a rock crevice between Fredericksø island and the larger Christiansø where no more than 100 souls scrape a living from fishing and humo...

Ronne, Bornholm Leaving Poland we had a blitz sail to Sassnitz, a German half way house en route to Bornholm, the wind was perfect for low flying on an absolutely flat Baltic sea and the sky hazy blue on the horizon graduating to deep ink blue overhead, you wish the boat could always go this fast so easily. It had been Whit Monday in Sassnitz - a big thing in Germany - charter yachts were everywhere and wonder or wonders, even the Fischbroetchen stalls were Gesc...