We love Faaborg. We had another fantastic day, with a sail to windward in warm sunshine, followed by a long reach at speed towards Faaborg harbour bay.
It’s a pretty town, with three significant attractions – an ice cream shop, a huge chandlery (which takes exactly the same time to walk to as it does to finish a delicious liquorice flavoured ice cream), and a wonderful bakery selling amazing Danish pastries, of course!
The pastries don’t look so big in the shop as they do on the plate
The following day we motored early in the morning to Svendborg, where we were to meet Nev and Diane in the afternoon, arriving by train from Copenhagen.
The following day we all sailed across to Ærøskøbing on the island of Ærø, still enjoying fabulous sailing weather. The town is a magical chocolate box of old Danish fishing village houses, each with unique painted doors and porcelain Pekingese dogs in the windows.
The story goes that the dogs look out the window when the master is at sea, and look inwards when he returns.
In the afternoon we swam from the beach in warm water, not lucky enough to own one of the colourful beach huts lined up along the sand.
Pretty much a perfect day!
Lovely, as ever, to receive your news, but I do wonder how you will make a new life onshore after your many voyages in recent years. With all due respect, I think you’re a bit elderly to start dinghy racing!
But it will be wonderful for you to have your sailing logs and photo collection to look back on and recall both highlights and lowlights.
News here is that Shirley is in the newish Enniskillen hospital, called SWAH which stands for South West Area Hospital. She had a stroke on 28th May and was fortunate to be whisked in for treatment within an hour of her fall. Her spirits are fairly good and the hospital will keep her in until they see that they have completed all the necessary treatments. On of the consultants says that this will take at least another month, so that gives us time to work on how best Shirley’s care should be managed when she returns home, with good daytime (free of charge) treatment during daylight hours. In the meantime, we count ourselves lucky that there is such an excellent stroke unit within fiv miles of home.
What will you do now with no boat to sail, you will have withdrall problems.
You have had a good few years sailing and you still have skiing
I am going to miss the reports from melodrama.
What plans now?
David
It’s going to be difficult!