This was our last week and this is blog number 25. We started in Munster and went via Dusseldorf and Dordrecht to the Hook of Holland and Harwich. It’s been an extraordinary experience to be away for 6 months and it leaves a lot to digest. We had some amazing times and coincidences even in…

We spent this last week on the Danish islands of Ærø and Funen catching ferries, watching ships and boats, shining seas, walking up cobbled lanes in numerous pretty towns with roses and hollyhocks. The sun shone. It was great! We started in Ærøskøbing. What a pretty place. We camped in the fields near the beach…

This week we first headed up the west coast of Sweden to not far from the border with Norway and then headed back to Denmark, this time the island of Funen, all the time by the sea. We were joined in western Sweden by Gloria and Camilo in another camper van and we stayed in…

We changed our minds at the last moment and set off to Bornholm which is Denmark’s easternmost island in the middle of the Baltic and only 80 minutes speed sail from Ystad in Sweden. It was very special…rocky shorelines, fishing harbours, round medieval churches, windmills, clarity of light and somehow the horizon seems unusually high….

This week we left Latvia and set sail back to Sweden and have spent a few days in Ystad. What a great town Riga is. On our last day there we walked for hours round the Art Nouveau buildings starting in an area known as the “Quiet Quarter”. It’s amazing. There are street after street…

The week started in Tartu, Estonia’s second city and old university town, and ended in Riga, the capital city of Latvia. Tartu was very appealing, hilly (unusual in Estonia), with eighteenth century buildings and parks along the river Emajógi. It poured with rain and we had a night of thunderstorms so we had a lazy…