London

We are enjoying being securely tucked into our berth here at St. Katharine’s Dock, London, miles from the sea. It’s hard to imagine that we are located right at the heart of the City, yet, we are in a marine environment with all its charms (and drawbacks). Although surrounded by apartment blocks, shops...

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London Calling

What a difference a month makes. Although our whole sailing season this year has been focused on getting somewhere warm for the winter, we have decided to change our plans and overwinter in London. At least it will be warmer than Toronto, probably no snow and  there will be sunlight, unlike our...

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Hello Sweden

I’m posting a little early this month as we are leaving Stockholm tomorrow, August 26 and will likely be without internet access for the next week, or, longer. However, I’m getting ahead of myself. We’ve been in Sweden for all of August having left the lovely ‘white’ town of Mandal, the southernmost...

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Farewell to Norway

We cast off from Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen on Friday, July 1, for the 1200 mile passage south. Our destination was Skudeneshavn, just south of Bergen where we’d arrived in Norway eleven months ago. We chose Skudeneshavn because it looked like an easy landfall from offshore and also a nice place to visit....

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