Agersø

We up-anchored at Karrebæksminde early'ish (with apologies to Jaap and Feikje who were not quite ready at the time) and did a bit over two hours to Agersø, the most NW island in the Smålandsfarvandet.
The very friendly and helpful harbour master gave us two prime spots and told us it's the weekend of the Agersø harbour fest!

We started with a walk on the island, which has a Dutch-looking windmill, where the owner of a vintage MG was replacing his spark plugs. We admired the car:








During the night, a few late revellers from the disco in the village came for a swim in the harbour, but otherwise it was quiet.

This morning, Janine and Gwilym left. It's hard to realise that they were with us for a whole week, time certainly went fast! As we are on an island, they left by ferry:








Today, there was a fishing competition as well as live music and fried fish plus rye bread for sale at the harbour. All part of the harbour fest.














Tomorrow, we plan to move to Lohals, on Langeland. More news then.

At anchor - Karrebæksminde

We did a rather long but pleasant stretch from Stege to Karrebæksminde today. As there did not seem to be a good reason to tie up in a mainly touristic beach resort, we decided to anchor just off one of the local beaches. Very nice, protected and peaceful. After a nice dinner, it's now time for the sun to set. Jildou is right behind us:





And there is only one other yacht at anchor here:





Good night!

Stege

We are now in Stege, on the island of Møn. We would have liked to go around the Eastern side of Møn, around Møn's Klint but there was still quite a lot of swell from the previous days with more wind and as that would have come in abeam we decided to take the comfortable option 'inside'.

Stege is nice enough, although not spectacular. In the church (St. Hans church by the way.....), is a very nice 'church ship'. One sees these in many Danish churches:





As you can see, there are also very nice frescos.

As promised, a map of our progress. I have tried to draw the 'way back' in red, but I'm not sure if this will show clearly enough on the blog. We'll give it a try!

Location:Kirke Pladsen,Stege,Denmark

And then there were three...

As reported earlier, we went to Faxe Ladeplads to meet up with Henk and Ria on Rasbora who are on their way to Copenhagen. Only an hour and a bit saw us arriving there:





So now, for a short period, there are three Valkvlets tied up next to each other here:





True to good Dutch custom we started with coffee:





After lunch, Lyn, Gwilym and Janine took the bus to Faxe, where there is a fossilised reef. We also went there when we were here two years ago, it is very interesting.











We ended the day with a communal BBQ, of which I have no pictures yet.

The weather continues to be gloriously sunny. We'll probably move to Stege next, by which time I shall include the updated map showing our travels.

Location:Havnevej,Strandlodshuse,Denmark

A walk along the Klint

We had a really nice walk today, along the 'Stevn's Trampesti', the hiking path all along the Klint. We walked up to Højerup, the place where part of an old church fell into the sea due to erosion of the soft chalk layer which undermined the harder limestone layer (see the post a week ago on this subject!). It is a 6.5 KM walk each way along a very easy path.

Looking back on Rødvig:





Looking ahead along the Klint:






There are many pretty flowers along the way:





The church the way it looked before 28 March 1928:





And now:





Looking out towards the missing choir:





At a restaurant near the church we had some lovely typical Danish open faced sandwiches:






And when we got back to the boat it was not long before it was supper time. It was 'Cobb weather' so......:





You can see Onbekommerd and the full Rødvig harbour in the background!

Tomorrow, we'll go to Faxe Ladeplads, just 7 miles away. There we'll meet a third Valkvlet, Rasbora, with Henk and Ria Nooter on board. They are still on the way North, towards Copenhagen.

Location:Lillevang,Rødvig,Denmark

Back to Rødvig, a bumpy trip!

As planned, we went back from Ishøj to Rødvig today. The forecast was for a wind increasing from around 8 to around 15 knots.
The trip started quite easy around 8:30 and as the morning wore on, the sea started building from the East. The wind was quite light. By the time we got close to Stevn's Klint, the wind also started picking up and by the time we rounded Stevn's Fyr (lighthouse), we had 15 to 18 knots and quite big waves. Onbekommerd handled it without problems, but we steered in 'zig-zags' to avoid the waves coming in abeam which would have been uncomfortable. One of our guests suffered from a bout of seasickness, but the other three of us were fine!
By 1pm we arrived at Rødvig where we found the harbour already quite full. But both Jildou and us found secure spots and we were happy to have a bite of lunch. As the afternoon went on, the harbour really filled up and now it's jam-packed, with boats in all boxes and tied up three abreast in the alongside berths.
It's blowing probably 20 knots now, tomorrow will still be windy. We already had planned a walk along the Klint for tomorrow, so that's a good 'fit'. By tomorrow afternoon it should drop and by Wednesday conditions are expected to be good to continue our journey, generally south from now on.
No pictures today, unfortunately we were too busy driving and navigating the waves. But tomorrow we'll try to get some nice shots and post them!

Walking in Copenhagen and getting Onbekommerd up to scratch

Yesterday, we took the train into Copenhagen itself. We had learned about the 'Copenhagen free city walking tours' and as they have an excellent write-up we decided to try them out. At 11 we left the Rådhuspladsen under the able direction of Rikka, who took us on a very interesting 3 hour walk. Lots of historical and current information!

Here she is under the yellow umbrella:








The concept of the free walking tours is interesting, they work for tips only and you pay what you think it is worth. No heavy sell, maybe just a suggestion but I had the feeling that if you gave nothing it was also ok. But as the guides are so good, it would not surprise me if the average person would tip more than they would have been prepared to pay 'up front'.

One of our sights was Nyhavn and we later walked into the Lego store (of course Lego comes from Denmark) and saw Nyhavn there as well:














Today was less exciting: the boat needed a 'clean up' and 'sort out' inside and also a general checkup mechanically (oil levels, filters and strainers and stuff like that). So we spent the day doing all that, plus two loads of washing and a big shop to get the supplies back in order.

After all that a short rest and now we are ready to face the world again!

Location:Strandparksvej,Vallensbæk Strand,Denmark