The great voyage

At the age of 18 my father and some friends bought a fishing boat made in 1934 and used it for recreational use. Over the years of my childhood we spent a lot of time on that boat (whenever living in Germany) always traveling to the northern city Kiel where it had its home for all those years. Once we moved to Copenhagen my father bought the other owners out, sailed the boat over and since then is the very proud sole owner of this striking old ship. 

(See more pics here )

Now that Vati is in retirement he can fulfil a life long dream of sailing where the wind takes him, sailing with no deadlines of having to be back to work. When my parents heard we were planning on moving far away to Asia we got invited to join them this summer, for a three and a half month sailing trip! How could we eveeeer say no to that offer! 

Living under the stars, sailing to new harbours, living on water, in a tiny room, wearing the same clothes for days on end, tasting the salty air all day long, getting a sunkissed nose (when the summer ends up coming), hair getting tangled by all the sea water spraying in my face, feeling land wonky-ness when back on land...  I repeat, how could we ever say no to that offer! 

We set sails any day after wednesday, given the weather conditions are appropriately warm enough and nice enough. We'll decide the night before looking at the weather forecast, so better be ready with one small bag of clothes! 

For now we are getting the boat ready for our big voyage, meaning lots of cleaning, grocery shopping, clothes sorting, small repairs and the odd bigger repair. 
Todays repair- up high.

The route

Our first stop is the Island Bornholm in Denmark, then we sail across to Sweden and all along the Coast, eventually crossing over to the Alan Islands, Finland. (read more about them here)

Gotta get back on the boat to help repair more things up high!

Bye Bye Berlin, I will surely miss you!

During our last days in Berlin, the sun came out and showed us one last time how wonderful Berlin truly can be! I kept getting waves of butterflies in my belly every time I realised that this new adventure was actually going to happen and it wasn't just a dream...

My love and I decided to list the top five things we will miss about Berlin. 
My number one was: My daily bike ride through the Tiergarten. Isn't it magnificent?

One of our last celebratory dinners was one of our favorite tapas style dinners! You should try it one night! It is truly satisfying!

Then the day came, where we had to bid Berlin farewell... 

As my good friend said 'With one crying eye and one laughing eye'. 

Maybe also one terrifying eye driving a moving truck :D

I haven't yet truly realised that there is no apartment waiting for us back in Berlin to return to... I still get butterflies in mah belly thinking This is real. This is happening. Waking up in the morning and not having to think about anything but what area shall I scope out today? It's pretty freaking crazy I tell ya! 

 I have reaaaally been enjoying our bike rides and our nature walks here so far, no people and no traffic sounds!

I have decided to take as many pictures as I can over the next few months to share our shananaaaananaaaanagans. Pictures can say so much more than my little words... here are the first few!

Greifswald

Peenemünde

We set sail anytime after next wednesday when the stormy weather is supposed to have passed. Fingers Crossed! Right now it feels a bit too much like winter.

Until then my friends!

In motion

Our apartment is almost completely empty by now. What a feeling to own so little again. I recommend it to all of you out there. I felt overwhelmed this past week with how much useless stuff we had!  

I have thought and still often think about how much waste us humans produce but this past week, packing up my apartment... I realised that I have been naughty. Too much plastic, too much schtuffs. Tz tz tz. 

My new challenge is to live minimalistic for the REST OF MY LIFE. My husband came up with the best idea ever and that is to go through our apartment once a year, preferably on our one-year-moving-anniversary, and really de-clutter. Giving so many of our belongings to charity, to neighbours, friends and selling some stuff has been so liberating! The true challenge I suppose is not even acquiring all that useless stuff!

It is quite a fascinating process getting rid of things I own. 
Firstly, feeling overwhelmed with letting stuff go and not being able to even think clearly about what I do need and what I don't need. 
Secondly, realising life as I know it won't be anymore and coming to terms with that thought. 
Thirdly, thinking about every story behind every item that I own and holding on to it. 
But then... I love the thought of a new and exciting adventure, new stories, new memories, a new life and I can let go of unnecessary materialistic weight! They are just things, the memories that are important to me will stay in my heart.

These are our last days in Berlin and then it's off to live on a Boat for three and a half months! I suppose this blog will turn into a bit of an adventure blog while I scope out harbours, nature and random yummy foods! So stay tuned for some wild pictures and some wild stories :D

Until then this is the wildest pic I can come up with these days...