Sweden

Shiraz Atlantic Voyage 2009
Tomas Bartosz
Wed 10 Jun 2009 18:54
55:43.301N 15:18.096E
Almost home!
And in time for midsummer if nothing unforseen
happens.
That´s good.
And that were also my hopes from the begining when
we started this crossing.
But tacking around in the Irish sea and motoring in
head winds in the English Chanel made me doubt it.
I was in dispair then.
But now it feels so much better.
:-)
We where ashore earlier today. And that was my
first fotsteps on Swedeish soil for almost two months.
Felt strange but good.
We where in a little town called Simrishamn in the
very southeast corner of Sweden.
Very pitoresque and nice little town with
cobbelstone streets and small colorfull houses.
We had a rosépepper steak with fresh Swedish
potatoes and lettuce. Sooooooooo Nice!
And the sun was shining as we drank our first beer
outside for this summer.
Might sound strange to you but it felt very good.
It is something special about the first restaurante meal outside every
year. :-)
Maby because you can´t sit outside the greater part
of the year.
Anyway.
After a short stop we where of again heading north
east to cross the Hanö Bay and then turn north up the coast to STOCKHOLM
!
Wow, it feels almost unreal. :-D
After so many miles I´m almost home
again.
Scary !
And finaly the wind is turning with
us!
THANK YOU NEPTUNE !
At last.
It has been a very strange trip all the way from
the Azores up to here.
The prevaling winds this time of the year is south
to west for that whole way usually.
But not this time, oh no !
I had hoped that we would have favorouble winds as
predicted and then we would have been homw a week ago at least.
But that´s life and that is sailing.
:-)
And we are here now and, tuch wood, nobody has
gotten hurt so far.
Things you can always mend. People are
harder.
So I feel fine I guess and I truely hope that you
all feel the same!
Over and out from the southern Baltic.
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