Archives for August 2022

Dear All.Thank you very much for all the greetings. It's great to hear from home, about all your plans for parties, trips and much more. We have been in a port close to Lisbon (Oeiras) for a few days. We have been sightseeing in Lisbon together with thousands of other tourists. Queues all the way. We escaped a little outside the centre, where there is an aqueduct from the 18th … [Read more...] about 6. Travel Letter – Hello from RR 24/8 2022

Dear family and friends. I understand that you cope with the heat at home. We have had a wonderful 21 degrees. We have stayed healthy and corona-free so far, but neither have I, like Anette, taken care of fainting young women. In Spain there are only a few restrictions, for example, you must wear a facemask in public transport. Now we have reached Lisbon and the … [Read more...] about 5. Travel Letter – 17/8 2022

Dear everyone It sounds like life goes on in the shire and we enjoy following birthdays, the first day of school, football matches, digging holes in gardens etc. Skipper Jeppe has decided to sail RR down along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts. These waters are also the killer whales' home turf, (ed. see https://www.orcaiberica.org/last-interactions and … [Read more...] about 4. Travel Letter 9/8 2022

Dear Friends and Family Now we are in A Coruña in northern Spain on the Costa del Muerte, the coast of death, uh uh. We have made it to Biscay and can now wear green trousers, says Susanne. It's over 4000m deep out there in the Biscay. No wonder it has any effect on the waves. We had a tailwind most of the time and the waves with us, so it rolled quite a bit and when we had … [Read more...] about 3. Travel Letter 4/8 2022