The day was sunny with a promise of heat but no wind. We packed up our shelter and departed, disturbed only by an oldish man out collecting empty drink cans for the deposit (about 10p/can). We ran back through the lagoons looking much better in the sunlight and out into clear waters towards Baggenstaket canal into Stockholm harbour.
In the early stages we had a lovely motor with few people up and about. Once through Baggenstacket there were many fast motor boats, steering was difficult due to boat wakes and progress became very unpleasant.
We were glad to get into Wasahamn where were greeted as old friends. Much of Wasahamn was given over to a Boat Show but we found room and settled in for a week or more attending the Stockholm Early Music Festival. We were early into the Blue Door restaurant lest it should close its doors early on Sunday and enjoyed Lambfarrsbiffar like homing lemmings. We had chores to do on Monday but managed to get up to date on the Festival.
The Festival lasted from Tuesday to Sunday, leaving little time or energy for anything else. We had much superb music and some surprising duds. The Frieburger Baroque orchestra played Teleman and Bach at high speed with very little feeling – they clearly had a train to catch. The final concert of Equadorian Baroque Music was wonderful, happy and life affirming.
We enjoyed some very good meetings with friends made over the year at this festival and parted with regrets. There was one elderly lady who complained that her balance was failing a little with age and this was affecting her skiing – she found it very difficult to undo her ski bindings when buried in a snow drift!
Since then we've been relaxing and recovering from the concert going. Peter Hallberg and Roger and Gwynn turned up yesterday so we have a lot of company. Fitting out is consequently going slowly. It was only yesterday I checked out the VHF radio and made sure I could get weather forecasts on it. We've been relying on the internet up till now.
We will be heading south now, aiming to see Jan and Sonja at Blankaholm and doing some more exploring on the way. Later we will return north to Norrtalje and more music.
In the early stages we had a lovely motor with few people up and about. Once through Baggenstacket there were many fast motor boats, steering was difficult due to boat wakes and progress became very unpleasant.
We were glad to get into Wasahamn where were greeted as old friends. Much of Wasahamn was given over to a Boat Show but we found room and settled in for a week or more attending the Stockholm Early Music Festival. We were early into the Blue Door restaurant lest it should close its doors early on Sunday and enjoyed Lambfarrsbiffar like homing lemmings. We had chores to do on Monday but managed to get up to date on the Festival.
We enjoyed some very good meetings with friends made over the year at this festival and parted with regrets. There was one elderly lady who complained that her balance was failing a little with age and this was affecting her skiing – she found it very difficult to undo her ski bindings when buried in a snow drift!
Since then we've been relaxing and recovering from the concert going. Peter Hallberg and Roger and Gwynn turned up yesterday so we have a lot of company. Fitting out is consequently going slowly. It was only yesterday I checked out the VHF radio and made sure I could get weather forecasts on it. We've been relying on the internet up till now.
We will be heading south now, aiming to see Jan and Sonja at Blankaholm and doing some more exploring on the way. Later we will return north to Norrtalje and more music.
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