Confusingly our next stop is called Borgholm – just a few days after we left the Danish island of Bornholm! Borgholm is a small holiday town a bit over half way up the Kalmarsund on the Öland island side. Öland island has always been favoured by the Swedish Royal Family …
One of the issues with deciding to start each post with an alliteration is that place names in some countries start with weird letters. Sweden is a case in point with lots of place names starting with ‘k’. English verbs starting with ‘k’ on the other hand are few and …
The next few days in Kalmar were grotty and grey – the only colourful thing being vast numbers of teenagers in sailor hats and costumes driving around on the back of trucks with trees for company. Bizarre as this sounds, this was exactly what happened – two days in a …
After a few days stopping over in Borgholm to explore Öland Island, we headed off this morning to get to Kalmar to change over crew. Somehow though the wind seemed to know exactly where we wanted to go and it sat perfectly on the nose. Thirty degrees wither way and …
The CA Rally finished today and we spent this morning looking round Kalmar and particularly Kalmar Castle. We had a great guide doing the English tour and giving us extensive details about how the Royals lived in Renaissance times. We even found out in detail about the Royal mistresses and …
We decided to leave Kristianopel early – around 7am – to aim to get to Kalmar around lunchtime. We managed to slide out of our berth quietly thanks to the Danish boat next door going at the same time and for the first couple of hours had a pleasant motor …
