Author: Liv

  • Wild weather in western Finland (movie #14)

    Wild weather in western Finland (movie #14)

    Hey there and happy new year! 🙂 Here is our new video from our time in Turku. We hope you will enjoy it! Best, Paul and Liv

  • 6 months of sailing

    6 months of sailing

    Today is a special day in many ways – it marks 6 months of sailing, our last day on the boat for now and our return to Désirée’s home port in Bogense. Since we left this harbour on the 19th of April, 183 days have passed, of which we have spent 94 with the sails…

  • (Home)Land in sight!

    (Home)Land in sight!

    This morning I woke up with the feeling that it has been quite a while since we last posted something in here. When I opened the blog to check, I was shocked to see, that our last post was made almost three weeks ago! Time has been flying by so quickly that there hasn’t been…

  • Gotland impressions

    Gotland impressions

    We have just spent about 5 days in beautiful Visby on Gotland. Gotland is Sweden’s biggest island and is located about 50 nautical miles / 90 kilometres east of Sweden’s east coast. We sailed there from FjärdlÃ¥ng in the southernmost Stockholm archipelago and therefore our crossing was quite a bit longer, about 90 nautical miles…

  • Friendly Finns

    Friendly Finns

    Today we arrived to Turku, the biggest Finnish city on our route towards the south. So far, we have sailed to two quite small cities along the west coast and three even smaller communities on islands in the archipelago. We are excited to see what Finnish city life is like and what the people we…

  • Hei Soumi! 🇫🇮

    Hei Soumi! 🇫🇮

    Since arriving back in Sweden after our trip to Bornholm and back, we have spent the last 10 weeks sailing, exploring and enjoying Sweden and it’s beautiful east coast. But two days ago, we set sails and headed away from this coast that has been our home for so long – the course was set…

  • Up in the north

    Up in the north

    Soon, we will have sailed for three months already, which means that the point of (no) return is approaching, and we will start heading south again. We have decided to continue north to Örnsköldsvik, at the northern end of the High Coast area. While sailing from the picturesque Häggvik to Swedens highest island (236m!) Mjältön…

  • Many reasons to celebrate

    Many reasons to celebrate

    The last couple of days have provided many reasons for us to celebrate! Some days ago we were docked to the rock at the nice island Rödlöga, where we reunited with our friends from the sailing boat Merlin. As they are on their way south again now, but we are still heading north, this will…

  • Making friends at sea

    Making friends at sea

    We have just spent a night at the beautiful island Broken, in a little harbour maintained by the Nyköping sailing club. We have to admit that we mostly chose this island because of its funny name and the promise made by the harbour guide that there would be a sauna there. A promise that most…

  • 58 degrees North

    58 degrees North

    Since our last update from Ekenäs about 10 days ago, we’ve been sailing 170 nautical miles along the coast towards the north. On our sail yesterday, we crossed the 58th degree North, which means that we are now further north than the northern tip of Denmark. Last week we spent some days in a lagoon…

  • Summer in Sweden

    Summer in Sweden

    We sailed from Christiansø near Bornholm back to Sweden on Saturday, and have since then been making our way up the coast to Öland, a big island that lies along the Swedish coast around Kalmar. The wind seems a little indecisive at the moment and has been quite weak for some days, but the temperatures…

  • Bornholm, Bornholm, Bornholm

    Bornholm, Bornholm, Bornholm

    Du, min dejligste ferieø 🎶 We have had a wonderful sailing trip to Bornholm today! Not only did we finally get to sail something else than upwind course – the waters were quite calm, the sun was out all the way and we had no issues crossing the big cargo ship channel. Désirée seemed to…