A busy day on Muhu
Work starts at 5am, at 9:30 a 40 km cycle ride round the island, visit to the Muhu museum, some shopping, back at 2pm, then work until 9 pm. God I am knackered! But not complaining 🙂
Muhu in the heat
We are still in the middle of the heatwave and I hate it. It is above 30 degrees and sticky. We are travelling the baltics because it is beautiful, empty AND COOL. Well, not this year! But the sailing is cool! We constantly cruised above 5 knots today and covered…
Haapsalu two
We decided to stay for days. Haapsalu is a real pretty little town, we have plenty of time to make our rendevouz with Tashi and Felix and we had to do some shopping.
Haapsalu
A beautiful little town, with oodles of character, charming wooden houses and an impressive bishop’s castle. So we are going to stay for 2 days.
Haapsalu greets Austria
I am always please when the harbour master hoists the Austrian flag to welcome us.
Sailing
The sailing conditions are perfect at the moment. Moderate winds and sunshine. I am also getting a kick out of using the spinnaker, it is a steep learning curve however.
Sunset cinema
And then there was a glorious sunset to crown a beautiful day.
Happy Victoria
Sea smoke
As we got to our destination in Estonia we saw some incredible sea smoke. It is caused by very cold air moving over warmer water. Or was it the other way round? Anyway, it made for a dramatic entry.
Crossing
The weather is glorious and I don’t like it! It is very hot and very little wind. Our crossing to Estonia started off with great hopes as we had some wind from the north-east. We even packed the spinnaker out, but it did not last. After 3 hours it was…