Sailing Summer
Posted: Friday, 22 August 2008 |
This is not a long blog, at least there won't be much writing. Just some photos of the two weeks we spent on the beautiful Fortito. Fortito is, of course, a yacht, and is my boyfriend's Other Woman.
We sailed south from Bergen and picked up my kids from the airport en route. (Hey, that's a bit o french there. And you thought I would be flashing my norsk about!) Next stop was with some friends at a summer house, where some sailing buddies had gathered. It was great to see them all, most had been in the Shetland Race so it was a bit of a reunion.
From there we went further south, stopping at a water park for a couple days, then on to Leirvik, Skudeneshavn, Stavanger, Jorpeland, Espev氓r, Baldersheim, and some other places that for the life o me I canna mind. We had a really good time, although as you can probably understand we had some low points as well as highs. Overall it was a really good fortnight, where we all learned a lot, and I got a good tan!
Ok, enuf o the rambling, on wi the photees.
Well, that's that. No time for much detail, just ask if you want to ken whar somthin is!
We sailed south from Bergen and picked up my kids from the airport en route. (Hey, that's a bit o french there. And you thought I would be flashing my norsk about!) Next stop was with some friends at a summer house, where some sailing buddies had gathered. It was great to see them all, most had been in the Shetland Race so it was a bit of a reunion.
From there we went further south, stopping at a water park for a couple days, then on to Leirvik, Skudeneshavn, Stavanger, Jorpeland, Espev氓r, Baldersheim, and some other places that for the life o me I canna mind. We had a really good time, although as you can probably understand we had some low points as well as highs. Overall it was a really good fortnight, where we all learned a lot, and I got a good tan!
Ok, enuf o the rambling, on wi the photees.
Well, that's that. No time for much detail, just ask if you want to ken whar somthin is!
Comments
Looks great. You'll just have to stay friends with the other woman.
Hyper-Borean from Greenwivenvy
looks like you all had a wonderful time,
island threads from lewis
Hi sis. Very envious - your summer ws a lot better than mine's turnin out to be!
Rachondaorx from Lancs
Please send me more about this beautifull island.We are planing to go to Scotland this year for a second time. My E mail adress is: fmargain@hotmail.com
Federico Margain from Mexico
Great photos, Ruth, that looks like a super holiday! What is the Hummerpark? I can figure out most of the other signs ("Skule"!!) but it doesn't look like the kind of place to have a vast population of high-end SUVs. Thanks again!
Jill from EK
Jill - Hummerpark I think is the Lobsterpond. We didn't see it as it was closed by the time we arrived. That was on Espev忙r. Federico - all the photos here are of Norway, not the island I live on. Which do you want info on?
Ruthodanort from Unst
Of course. Hummer is lobster in German also. Stupid moi!
Jill from EK
FM from Mexico wishes to know whether the Unst bus stop is always/ still well stocked (there are rumors that irradiated guga - to ensure long shelf life -can now be found in the pantry, and whether donations in pesos would be gratefully accepted.
mjc from IN, USA
Great photos. You are a good ambassador for Norway. Everyone wants to go to sunny Norway when they see your pictuers. Autumn is spesially beautiful, so comme along. Thank you, Ruth.
Dag from Norway
Guga, I think, is a Western Isles delicacy, I've never heard of anyone in Shetland or Orkney eating it. So no, mjc, it doesn't feature in the Unst Bus Shelter. I don't think there are refreshments there just now, that's usually kept for special occasions like Christmas, New Year, Auld Yule, or Up Helly Aa, and is usually of the liquid variety. Dag - Norway is easy to photograph, it's beautiful. I hope to be back 'home' in October.
Ruthodanort from Unst
A lobster only becomes a hummer when its been out in the sun too long. Which wouldn't be difficult this year. I purrticularly like the false teeth lodged in the rocky cleft...
Flying Cat from glorious summer of content
glad you and all are having a good timexxxx
carol from the usual
Really? No guga eating in Shetland? Is your life span consequently shorter than in the Western Isles? My understanding is that guga with a side dish of seaweed amount to the elixir of life. Or is that a canard (no, Soaplady, not a Muscovy)?
mjc from IN, USA
Oh no, mjc, I would say the life span of a native shetlander will be at least as long, if not longer, than that of a Western Isles resident. Here they swear by a strict diet of salt meat and whiskey. Perhaps with the odd frozen burger or plate o chips thrown in! (If you drink enough whiskey it will destroy everything else you eat, so all the fat in the junk food disappears! Of course, it may make your nose a bit red.) I reckon the Western Isles diet is pretty similar. Or am I wrong?
Ruthodanort from Unst
The balance between the junkfood and the whisky is probably slightly different Oot West...all that goodtime religion makes people so jolly and convivial...
Flying Cat from Cheshire Grin
.... that they make do with Welch grape juice, or in those wayward institutions bordering on the Anglo-Catholic, with Manischewitz (kosher) wine. Gimme a pintamilkaday!!
mjc from IN, USA
Blogs fae a thirty-something mum of 4 born in Fife, brought up in Orkney, and living in Unst.
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