The wind has turned to west and the way home is more difficult than the fantastic ride we had to Heslinki. So, since we have plenty of time a bunny-hop to Sottunga was on the cards. The church near the harbour features an interesting layout. The church tower seems to…
As the forecast was very wet & nasty, we decided to stay a day longer at Seglinge. However, it turned out to be much nicer and we took the offer of free bikes of Seglinge Guesthamn and went via a ferry to the neighbouring island of Kummlinge. As it was…
Probably the best walk ever! Victoria adds: Seglinge may well be the friendliest island in the world. They go to no end of trouble to make their visitors happy, and not for any economic benefit since there are no cafes or restaurants or souvenir shops on the island to benefit…
The view out of my bedroom window. Good night for now! Victoria adds: Wolfgang, being very tired after a succession of 4am starts to his working day, was far away in dreamland by the time sunset came. It wasn’t spectacular by Scandinavian standards, as clouds had come up at the…
And the Ålands greeted us with a very nice welcome sign. But we were also busy fixing the stove (screws had come undone), doing the washing and a little walk around town.
We are back in the Ålands and are looking forward to some more relaxing. On our way to the east we did rush through and only had a stop at Mariehamn and Seglinge. Now we have a week to explore the islands and the enjoy the last bit of sailing “abroad”.
Bye bye to Finland! We really enjoyed the sailing in Finland and we will definitely come back. The archipelago seems much less crowded and the number of islands is sheer impossible to explore. It is said that the Stockholm archipelago consists of 20.000 islands, the archipelago at Turku of 100.000.…
Jungfruskär offers a free very nice little harbour. The island is part of the nature reserve and has also got a lovely 3km nature-trail. It goes past the cattle herd, a forest, two old anti-air or anti-ship guns and what looks like the playing field of a farmer with a…
Today was a quick and breezy sail (me to Wolfgang “Why do you keep saying ‘We’re almost there’ when what you mean is ‘We’re at least an hour away’?”) down to a bay with a tiny guest jetty, which we scorned, preferring to save the €5 fee (never say we…