Rocky road to Gotenburg…
Yes we were a day off the radar. We had to sail over the North Sea from Norway to Sweden. Even tough it doesn’t looks that far it is still 24 hours of sailing and about 22 hours without the internet and I don’t mean WIFI. I mean everything, 4G and calling are also impossible.
We had to motor a little bit to get outside of the fjord, but after that we put up our sails and it went perfect after that. We would even go so far as to say it was champagne sailing. A term we sailors use for a nice and stable windspeed and direction.
Sadly for me, I got sea sick again. Although this time we may have found part of the problem. I seem not to be able to handle bread very well on the waves. Next time we will try something else to eat. There also was another thing that didn’t help my seasickness. A second before it happend we were enjoying the seals on the rocks and then we heard it. A loud noise like thunder. We hid a big rock, hidden under the swell. Our panic levels rose and our heart were pounding. The impact had been hard enough that the floorboard had come up from there normal spots.
We sailed further and after an extensive search trough the hole boat, we were glad to have walked away from this without any damage. Just a bit of panic and a few grey hairs perhaps. We arrived with daylight in the marine. For everyone planning to go here by ship, if I were you I would plan to get in with daylight. There are rocks and spicks everywere. After arriving at 8:30 it was time for a few hours of sleep and for a deep clean of the boat. The salt always makes everything super sticky.
We met up with the Grayhound again and they took us on a hunt trough the city. Our first time going with a tram and it was quite the adventure. Wrong lanes, Trams that stop working while you're on them. But got to the city and more important we got back on the boat.
The city is extremely big and we will have to go back tomorrow to explore some more, but for now we found a beautiful ship and in the evening we climbed up one of the higher hills to ways the sunset.
