05.21.09

Day 5, 20-05-2009 (written on 20-05-2009)

Posted in Sailing, Trip May 2009 at 12:13 pm by Olrik

All the below times are in UTC+1
All miles are seamiles
A knot is about 1853 Meters/Hour

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Today I woke up at 8 AM. I had the alarm clock from my dad as we planned to leave him to sleep as my uncle and me started the boat to sail to Aroeskoblyst. I had quite a bad night sleep as last night there was quite a harsh storm. I had gotten up at midnight because I had this suspicion that something as leaking into the boat. When I felt a drop of water on my hair (from my own window that was dripping condense) I went out of my cabin and found that the window above the navigation table was not closed properly and water was getting in. All the maps on the navigation table were wet and this little book with information about all the docks in the surrounding area got wet too. I was happy that I was there in time before the whole table was drowned out. I cleaned up the water and put a towel on the maps and book to let it dry. No permanent damage was done, so I was there on time.

Perhaps you’ve already looked at the pictures and thought what we were doing with our hats on etc.. Well. Lets just say that having a burnt face and ears, then sitting in the sun kind of felt like a bad idea. So to keep further pain from ourselves we decided to pack ourselves in firmly and do what the nomads do in the Sahara, overdress to keep the coolness in. (or so I have been told, anyway). I must say it did some remarkable work though as I have not gotten any more burns and it wasn’t even that bad being tucked away in 6 layers of clothes. That’s right, I had jogging leggings, jeans, a t-shirt, a long sleeved t-shirt, a sweater and a gaastra jacket. It was quite comfortable actually.

The first half way towards Aroeskoblyst I read the rest of my book "The Light Fantastic" by Terry Prachett (if you like fantasy books and want a couple of novels to read, I’d recommend the "Diskworld Novels by Terry Prachett"). A great novel I’ll give you that. Sadly though I finished it and I didn’t have the sequels to the book with me, so I was left without reading material and it was beautiful weather to read, or of course, to take a nap. Which is what I did the other half of the trip to Arousboblyst, heh. My uncle and dad just woke me up when we were approaching the dock as they needed my assistance with lowering the sails and docking the boat. We then went into town to get some nice pictures.

We actually went into town with the thought not to find any restaurants so we already braced ourselves to have to eat some soup that night (while we had been eating like royals before in restaurants). First we saw the spectacle of the day. A ferry ship coming in to dock in Aroeskoblyst. It was actually quite a sight and I took a sort of slideshow-ish stream of pictures that turned out to be quite OK. After that we took a small walk into town and to our amazement saw a sign with "HOTEL" on it with a menu hanging outside. We looked on the menu and saw it was quite good so instead of soup we ended up with a three course menu.

We started off with Coliflower soup with white fish, it’s probably one of the better soups I’ve eaten. Then, as a main course, we had ducks breast with ‘paté de foi gras’, potatoes and a delicious butter gravy. At this point all three of us agreed that this had been a) Way better then the soup as we thought we’d be having that night and b) the best restaurant we have eaten this week, which will most likely not change. Then for dessert we had some concentrated cinnamon-ish drink with whipped cream in a really small glass with a small cake that tasted a little bitter and some really good vanilla ice cream. After we left that restaurant all 3 of us were stuffed and went back to the boat for my uncle and dad to enjoy a good game of "Genius" and for me to write this post.

Sadly, I have yet again found a hotspot that requires me to pay a stupid amount of money for it.

Regards,
Olrik

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