Well here we are back in the UK. Actually we got home about 8am yesterday, but what with one thing and another I didn't get around to po...
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One of many memorial stones at Dybbøl Dybbøl Mill is the site of the Danes' valiant last stand against the Prussians in 1864. In ...
We are booked on a ferry home from the Hoek v Holland on Wednesday. So it's time to head back to Augustenborg, tidy up and pack. We defi...
Well, as promised we devoted yesterday to culture - we arrived at Schloss Gottorf around 1030 and didn't leave until after 1600. It'...
In an earlier blog post I noted all the stuff we packed into the car, and I thought it would be interesting to comment on how useful it has ...
From Maasholm we made a massive journey of 2.8 miles upriver to Kappeln, another place we last visited two years ago. This time the price ha...
Saturday dawned rather grey and cool, with poor visibility and a force 3 from the north-west. Conditions were perfect for a run down to the ...
We spent three days in Flensburg in the end, as Wednesday was a bit gusty. I took the opportunity to go and get a Campingaz cyclinder from ...
Having gone to the trouble of getting here we thought we should give ourselves time to enjoy Flensburg, which is a sizeable, attractive city...
We left Marina Minde just after 1000 and had a wonderful sail for a couple of hours, close-hauled in a NW3, up the sparkling Flensburg Fjord...
We're still in Marina Minde, where Baltic summer has definitely arrived - not quite into the high 20s but up to 23 or so this afternoon ...
I love little Baltic jetties The perfect garden ornament - a lighthouse Looking up into the Eggern Sund View down t...
We're now in Marina Minde, halfway up the Flensburg Fjord, and for the first time for a week we have decent internet access, so I can ty...
Today we sailed all the way to Sønderborg - about 5 miles by road from Augustenborg, or 10.6 nautical miles by sea. Although we have been ar...
A bit of a red-letter day today, or at least pink - we went sailing on our own boat, for the first time since August 2011.
The forecast w...
Monday was a quiet, rather dreary day when nothing much happened until late afternoon when we had our first go at getting Sam off the boat o...
We made our first voyage today - all of 100 metres from the quayside berth beside the mast crane to a proper box mooring. Not much, but it f...
We all slept on the boat for the first time for about six years, sleeping quite well considering, and woke to pouring rain and no wind at al...
Well, I feel almost as tired as if we'd just crossed the North Sea, with less to show for it. Still, Kalessin is afloat with the mast...
Today hasn't been a very good day, not least because it has rained pretty much non-stop all day, with a high of about 14°. Exactly two y...
Well, the antifouling is done (mostly by me with help from Sam and Ben). Also: • New guardrail connections with snap shackles at one end, ta...
Having dithered for ages about our choice of ferry, we've had a few days of feeling rather smug. Sirena Seaways , the DFDS ferry which n...
The survey arrived this morning from David Dabney. The boat is fine and nothing much is wrong, which is nice. There are a few things like ga...
I'm torn between days when I spend every spare moment thinking about the boat and days when I don't seem to be doing enough. I keep ...
We'll work towards using a harness just for security, rather than as a hoist. In the meantime, at least we know that Sam can get on and ...
Well, here we are on board a Westerly Storm, Cyclone of Langstone, in Chichester Marina, all tucked up and ready to sleep.
Thank to the ...
Augustenborg, last time we were there.... On our return from the P&O cruise, our next priority was to decide what to do about Kaless...
Farewell to Madeira We got back to the UK on 10 May and updated many friends via email about how we got on. This post is a slightly ada...
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