After another day’s enforced inactivity in Smögen (strong winds once again!), we finally headed north again today. After a really enjoyable few days of socialising, seaweed foraging, walking in the rain (ok that wasn’t quite so enjoyable!) and more socialising, it was a shame to move on, but we are heading towards Norway, so need to head north(ish). We...
Today was different. The weather wasn’t different (still windy, though there was a bit of sun!), but the day’s activity was. Louise had persuaded us all to take part in a foraging day, but being sailors, this foraging had to have a different slant to it, so it was a seaweed foraging day. We all headed over to the meeting point laden with wet suits, masks...
This week was meant to be a sailing holiday for Alex and everyone else, so when they came up today, we gave them various options. Given the ‘exciting’ sail yesterday, I didn’t altogether expect them to choose the option of going for a sail again today, not least because the wind was even stronger today. However, that is the option they chose and...
Today the weather looked (marginally) better for sailing. The original plan had been to sail down to Marstrand for a look round. However, looking ahead, the forecast for the next couple of days is not great, so we decided to head straight up to Smögen to stay ahead of the weather. So, Greg, Patrick and Georgia came with me on the boat and Alex and Anne drove up to...
Alex, Greg, Georgia and Patrick joined us a couple of days ago for a sailing holiday. So far we have managed 50% of that – holiday, yes, sailing no. The weather has just decided not to oblige so we have managed to find other things to do. The first day we did some walking and a lot of eating and chatting. The second day Alex ran us down to Klädesholmen in his...
Another day, another direction. North yesterday and the wind was coming from the north, so we headed west and then south today – so which way did the wind go …. West and then south ….. It’s like it knows our plans! Ah well, it was very light, almost like it couldn’t be bothered to follow us properly, so it made a token effort to blow...
With a breezy day forecast we decided to have a relaxing day in Åstol and so didn’t head off again until this morning and then just a short run north. We want to stay fairly close around Tjörn as Alex and friends are heading out to Skärhamn in a couple of days, so we will head there tomorrow ready. So today, we headed up to an anchorage on the east side of Lyr...
After a day of looking around Gothenburg, including a trip to the chandlery on the tram, we decided to head back north again. The wind has remained resolutely in the north and we want to go north, so we knew we would be motoring a lot of the way. However, with some sunshine (and a deck house to shelter in!), it wasn’t too bad. The route took us back through the...
The observant among you will have noted that I often use alliteration in the titles of the blog entries here, so before you feel smug and think that I have lost the meaning of alliteration, I need to go through how the Swedish pronounce Gothenburg. For a start, they spell it the Swedish way (seems fair) – Göteborg. The initial ‘G’ then becomes...
While we waited for the overnight northerly blow to go through, we went for a walk around Marstrand. It is a beautiful island and the walk took us around much of the shore. We went past the old bath house and then on towards the north of the island. From quite woody green areas, the landscape quickly becomes quite barren and rocky, but still maintaining a stark...