Troense and Elvira Madigan

We somewhat reluctantly left Skarø this morning, it was so peaceful and friendly there. But it was time to move on. As it was a beautiful Sunday in the school holidays, the Svendborg Sund was quite busy:





Our destination was Troense, on the island of Tåsinge. Near Troense is Valdemars Slot. We originally thought this was the Valdemar the Great, who is quite famous in Danish history, a King who lived in the 1200's. But it is another Valdemar, which made the 'Slot' (officially a castle but more what in England would be called a manor) less attractive to us to visit, although we did take a walk there.
Then we found out that Tåsinge is also Elvira Madigan's last resting place. Who is Elvira Madigan? you may well ask. Well, she was a Danish tightrope walker, who eloped with Sixten Sparre, her married lover. As they could not marry (because he was already married and father of 2 children as well), he shot her and then himself. This was in 1889. A Swedish film was made of this in 1967, in which the Andante of Mozart's C Major (K 467) piano concerto was used. The concerto is now sometimes (quite often actually) referred to as the 'Elvira Madigan' concerto. Anyway, the grave of Elvira and Sixten is here on Tåsinge and the pension that they lived in for their last few days was just around the corner from the marina. Lyn's piano project after the Beethoven's C Major concerto is the Mozart C major.

We thought about moving on after we had walked to the 'slot', but these little critters got into the water inlet for the exhaust cooling:





Removing mashed jellyfish from the cooling water strainer is a bit messy! By the time that was done (and fearing the same would happen again as the water teems with jellyfish), we decided to stay here for the night.

Half an hour ago, the weather changed (as predicted) with a big rain shower:





So the period of relatively sunny days with little wind is over for a few days. We'll see what's in store next and set our plans accordingly.