This is "Onbekommerd"!

Monday, July 27, 2015

Going back South

As per an earlier post, we spent last weekend on the island of Texel, but without Onbekommerd!

But Onbekommerd was very much there in spirit as the occasion was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jac. P. Thijsse, after whose motto our boat was named. He spent a few years of his early life on Texel and this plaque reminds us of that:

There should have been a picture here. Blog press issued an update promising that the 'photo upload bug' had been fixed, but unfortunately it still does not work. Sorry.

We very much enjoyed the weekend with all my cousins from the Thijsse side of the family, we had not been all together in 40 years!

Texel to Västervik is not all that far distance wise, but it takes 10 hours of bus, ferry, train, 'plane and bus again (should have been a train, but was replaced by a bus). Add to that quite a bit of walking and you can imagine we had a good night's sleep!

This morning we started the 'way back' in earnest. No hurry, but for the next two weeks we'll use any day with favourable weather to move back towards the Netherlands.
As it was a good day today, we put in about 5 hours and are now back in Figeholm, which is a very pleasant harbour at the northern end of the Kalmarsund. For the first time in weeks, we got a bit of spray over the deck when we left the protection of the islands of the Skärgård. It will be like that for the next few days, although the wind is predicted to be light.

We'll try to keep you up to date!

Location:Sjömansgatan,Oskarshamn,Sweden

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