Latest News

I know, I know, things have been pretty quiet round here of late. In fact you can see the tunbleweed blowing through the pages. Lots of other projects have meant no time to update the website. Still, we're finally getting round to putting Kissen back in the water. As a taster, I've finally added a page on the Swedish West Coast. Probably one of the most popular parts of the whole Baltic, its always been missing from this site, partly because until last year, we'd never been north of Ellös and we dont like to write about something until we've actually been there.

We also went to Norway, but that's another story. For a flavour of what that is like, here's an article I wrote for the Hallberg Rassy Magazine on Oslo (pdf file)

We've now finished our cruising for this year and kissen is laid up in her shed, so we've taken the Google Maps off. Shortly we'll update the site with this years cruise and our impressions of Norway

We've made some minor changes to the Weather section to bring it up to date, and added a section on Norwegian Charts. We've also updated the section on the Swedish pilots, now that one is available in English. In the meantime, we're discovering how expensive Norway is. We havent produced a weekly log this year, although we might add that later (we're keeping notes!) We are however regularly updating the Google maps above with our current whereabouts.

We've added a Google maps section to this page. Now I can update the site by simply uploading a small XML file and Google works out where we are (or were...). No more tedious updating maps! I'll add a track when I can work out Polylines... If it doesnt work properly on anyone's browser, let us know.

We visited Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania last year so I thought I had better finally get round to adding a page on our impressions. Although we spent a couple of weeks in Latvia, we only just scratched the surface of Estonia - a destination that we plan to get back to soon and explore some more. You can read what we thought here.