Thursday 20 June 2013

To Broken

A simple motor run back through the skerries to the island of Broken to attend the midsummer entertainments there. We were made very welcome and decided at long last to join the NYSS ( Nykoping Sailing Club). One advantage will be we have a lovely island to stay at when we are less able to travel far with Badger.

We duly gathered wild flowers to decorate the summer pole and watched it raised and danced round. In the evening was a very pleasant dinner and jazz concert before we decided on bed and sleep. We had been screaming at our neighbours for some hours in amazingly noisy surroundings and had got pretty tired. We were up early the next day but others surfaced later, took our subscription and presented us with a members flag. We then pottered off south to Oxelosund to meet briefly with Martin and Maria Morris en route to a family dinner. We took the toy road train into town the next day to shop but found the pontoons of the harbour very exposed to swell. Next time we’ll use the fishing harbour which also gets the toy train service.

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