The washing powder island??

As predicted, the weather yesterday was not all that nice, so we decided to stay tied up in Lohals. Of course, you are not alone in a decision like that: virtually all of the 'sailing family' has the same views about the weather, so no-one left and no-one arrived. But a few had the same idea as us and took the bus to Rudkøbing, the biggest town on Langeland, about a 45 minute bus ride away. Rudkøbings main claim to fame is that H.C. Ørsted was born here, you undoubtedly know that he discovered electromagnetism ;-).
Here he is:





Otherwise, Rudkøbing was not all that interesting, but we DID have a hamburger and chips there, which is worth mentioning as we can't really remember having a hamburger this year yet (but we did have nice Danish chips in Svendborg a few days ago).

This morning, the weather was a lot friendlier and as a result there was a mass exodus from the town of Lohals.
We crossed the Støre Bælt, the waterway between Fyn and Sjælland. This is quite a busy stretch of water, with a few major shipping routes going under the impressive bridge which links the islands. The wind was quite light, about 12 knots max., but there was still quite a bit of very confused chop from the stronger winds of the last few days and the result was that it was like going through a washing machine, waves all over the place. After 2 hours, we arrived on the island of Omø, hence the lame joke as the title of this post. Sorry!

But Omø is very nice, with a very friendly 'feel' to it and a nice international atmosphere around the harbour. Our neighbours are Scottish, but live near Berlin, there are also Swedish, Norwegian, German, Dutch and of course Danish flags around.

We did our usual 'recce' and came across this nice house:





Tomorrow, the weather is supposed to be reasonably kind again, and we'll go further into the Smålandsfarvandet, the water between Sjælland and Lolland. We are now just over 11 degrees East of Greenwich and over 55 degrees North.