For mum’s last day in the islands we had perfect sailing weather all morning, blue skies, sunshine and wind, but in the early afternoon we ran into a local cloudburst (you get a lot of these micro-weather systems and it looks very dramatic to see an island bathed in a…
Today we sailed from Krokholmen up around Möja and into its tiny harbour Kyrkviken. We’ve tried to get into Kyrkviken before, because there’s only room for a handful of boats and it has always been bursting at the seams, but today we managed to snag a free space. There aren’t…
We are having a wonderful time on board of Akka. Cruising (not so much at the moment) – Snoozing (a great deal) – Boozing (Not so much in Sweden as it is so expensive)
There is no wind and we are bored. We motored to a very lovely and protected inlet bay this morning between Krokholm and the rather uninspiringly named Säck. That took us until 9am. Then we went for a walk, and Wolfgang very daringly swam in the kind of temperatures that…
We’ve been to Gällnö several years running now, but have always anchored in the bay called Hemfladen, drawn by the little waterside bar and utterly charming coffee shop, but this year, since Akka is too big to get up to the jetty, and we don’t have a dinghy to row…
After a very quiet night in our deep, deep water, tied to this tortured tree here: we left the bay and found a good stiff breeze blowing, so we set off for a sail. Akka heeled a bit because of the wind and put the fear of God into…
Yesterday we headed into Stockholm to pick up my mum. Wolfgang had hoped to sail in in grand style and do a lap of honour in front of the royal palace, but there wasn’t much wind and we had to motor in the last stretch. The really tricky part was…
After having our anchor place all to ourselves for most of the day, we were joined in the afternoon by a flotilla of Dutch boats, who apologised for disturbing our peace by inviting us to a barbecue, where we ended up doing the actions to Dutch folk songs to the…
Lots of sunshine today so we sailed a couple of miles to beautiful Grinda and anchored on a rock in a pretty little bay. Grinda is one of the islands that gets grazed to keep the grassland open so there are some sheep and cows and also a small number…
After a day of rain, when we mostly read, slept and ate (I know, I know, it’s a hard life), today is dry and sometimes sunny. We went for a charming walk to the nearest shop, about 2km away. Apparently Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane had had the same…