Tuesday 21 August
A day of indecision about which plan of several alternatives would be our best option, interspersed with some wonderful social time: Mate got chatting on the quayside with a British couple who are ‘motorhoming’ around Europe, and who lived for nearly 40 years five minutes around the corner from my crew’s former land dwelling in SW London – it really is a small world.
After a trolley dash around the very local supermarket, an impromptu al fresco tapas lunch was enjoyed in my sunny, if waspy, cockpit with our lovely French friends. Later, they went off to explore Kalmar Castle, where a treaty, known as the Kalmar Union, was signed in 1397 uniting the Nordic countries into Scandinavia.