Category Archives: Kids

One week in Flensburg

Posted on Thursday July 7th, 2011 by dafdaf

Just a collection of pictures made during the last week here in Flensburg. More info in the next post.

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Ready to leave

Posted on Sunday June 26th, 2011 by dafdaf

Today the west wind gives a break and we’ll use the calmity to leave Glowe and the island of Ruegen after a stay of two weeks. We’ll try to get to Gedser (Denmark) from where we will hopefully have a good start towards Flensburg, where we would like to go Monday/Tuesday.

Compared to our planned route we’re a bit delayed but that is of no concern. We’ve used the additional time here in Ruegen to improve and repair things on the Rancho Relaxo of the Seas and despite the harsh weather (and Gui’s hospital stay) we had a really good time here.

Ah ! – And for the first time we’ve met another austrian Vessel. You can see it parked belong ours in the photo.

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No sailing…. Climbing trees

Posted on Saturday June 25th, 2011 by dafdaf

Whew. What a night. We should already getting used but still – it’s unnerving when the wind is shaking the boat violently all night. And the sound of a hundered lines and wires made singing because of the wind gusts…. Very romantic during the first night or so… but in the end a little – well – unnerving.

Anyway. Another day of excitement on Ruegen. This time: David learning for his radio exam (as usual) and Gui + Kids going…. ta-daa: to the climbing forest. Dunno what it’s actually called in english but you’ll see on the pics anyway. It must have been quite exhausting since Bruno is lying here beside me and sleeping while I’m writing this.

And guess what: Yes, the wind is already singing again… We have ~6Bft here in the harbour and there’s no sing of the strong westerly being disrupted anytime soon. We’d need a day or two of a different direction to go towards Flensburg…. But we’ll see. Maybe monday ?

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Visit to the farm

Posted on Friday June 24th, 2011 by dafdaf

As we still are not ‘allowed’ to go sailing we spend the time discovering the little feats of Ruegen. Yesterday Gui, Bruno and Viola were at a local farmhouse that has many little animals. – And we all know: Kids LOVE animals. Even more if they are small, fluffy and cuddly.

Oh  – and where was I ? I spent the time on the boat learning for the Amateur Radio License. The exam is on 4th of July in Berlin. *rrr*

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Bruno’s 5th birthday

Posted on Tuesday June 21st, 2011 by dafdaf

It’s the Fete de la Musique, it’s Summer, it’s the longest day of the year and it’s BRUNO’S BIRTHDAY !

Our little Party actually took place last weekend as his best friend Victor was here in Glowe and we had fun on the beach, a birthday cake and a little present. Yes just one – and a small one but Bruno nearly freaked out when he unwrapped his Victorinox pocket knife. And I was actually surprised that there is a child proof (if you can say that about a knife) version of the famous red knife. It has a rounded blade, a saw, file, toothpick, screwdriver and tweezers. He loves it (of course !)

And a biiiiiiig thank you to Oscar, Patricia, Victor and Anton for coming another time to Ruegen ! It was great having you here !

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Tonsils, horses and wind

Posted on Friday June 17th, 2011 by dafdaf

Thanks to the nice drawings from Bruno and Viola and to you who wrote so many nice Emails to Gui, she’s feeling really better and will be ‘home’ tomorrow in the morning ! Yippiiee !!
One important fact: Gui’s telephone is dead ! If you want to phone us, please use my number. You can see it in the ‘Contact’ details – but only if you’re registered of course.
Well – and here they are: Gui’s Tonsils, her menueplan and Brunos drawing (showing our ship, ambulance and hospital well – and the TV-tower of Berlin ;-).

After our daily visit to the hospital, we went for a stroll with Viola’s beloved Ponies and watched the wind gusts drive the sand of the beach through the air.

In the last pic you can see our current home: the harbour of Glowe. It’s nice here ! – Really. The beach is beautiful and at least 10km long ! Although it’s a bit windy these days.

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Cleaning day

Posted on Thursday June 16th, 2011 by dafdaf

As the weather is not actually very summer like, today we mostly stayed inside and while Bruno and Viola used the time to establish a car dealership…

…I was cooking my morning coffee and looked at all the nice patina in and around our trendy Taylor Para-Fin cooker. Everyone knows, that I’m not really the cleaning person but that was actually too much dirt – even for me. So I started to clean the oven and 1/2 bottle of super-power cleaning gel and two hours later, the stove was clean:

And of course now I was completely dirty from all soot and stale grease and whatelse  – so the next step was quite clear: I continued by cleaning the bilge, and afterwards myself. Yay !

So why would you want to read such a boring post about someone cleaning his stove and boat ? Because I am bored !! Really – after one week of hanging around in Glowe without Gui it’s really getting time to move on. The problem is that even next week there still is a risk of haemorrhage which means Gui will not be fit for sea travel. *rrr* Well – we’ll see…

Two more pics that the kids made: Viola’s can and our ‘board gecko’. ;-)

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A short break

Posted on Tuesday June 14th, 2011 by dafdaf

After a few days in the hospital, Gui had holiday for the weekend and we had visitors from Berlin. Bruno’s best friend Victor came together with his father Oscar. And despite Gui being still quite sick and me also not feeling too well, we had a really nice time on the beach, riding horses and doing ‘kids stuff’.

Right now Gui’s back in the hospital has probably already lost her tonsils. I’ll wait a little longer before I try to call her. Thanks for all of you that keep asking for Gui and are sending us wishes for betterment. I’ll post as soon as I have word from the hospital. Right now there isn’t much I can do but tomorrow morning we’ll be on the way to Bergen to hopefully bring back good news.

Hmm. The fisheye lens of the GoPro cam really creates funny shots. I like that.

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Shortly before leaving

Posted on Wednesday June 1st, 2011 by dafdaf

If everything works out ok, tomorrow early in the morning we’ll be underway towards the Baltic sea.

You probably thought so, but the last days we were quite busy. I had to fix a couple of last minute problems with the ship and Gui is still in the city working on her next Coquito collection. But tomorrow morning we’ll leave. Keep an eye on the little map to the right as I *just* fixed the position reporting system !

As I still don’t have any pictures from our party, I’ll post some work-pics: Viola and Bruno while filling our cereals into water bottles. That’s it for today. Tomorrow, we’ll start when the sun rises. ;-)

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Last visit to Austria

Posted on Thursday May 26th, 2011 by dafdaf

I just wanted to post a couple of pics from our last visit to BEAUTIFUL Austria (two weeks ago). The pics show us hiking unfar my partent’s home in Timelkam.

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Farewell party 5/28/2011

Posted on Tuesday May 24th, 2011 by dafdaf

Last minute Details for our farewell party:

We’ll be travelling with the Rancho Relaxo to the city center and hope to arrive at the Radialsystem at around 14h on Saturday afternoon.
The PARTY will start around 15h in the YAAM !! But as there will be a concert in the evening, we’ll relocate around 19h to the RADIALSYSTEM where our ship is and we’ll stay there and drink lots of beers. I hope you’re all coming ! You can find a detailed map here !

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Viola writes ‘Viola’

Posted on Tuesday April 19th, 2011 by dafdaf

Yesterday our little princess wrote her name – all by herself – for the first time !! And this only two days before her third birthday which will be on the 21st. That definately deserves a little attention and it’s own blog post.

Here is a pic of her work:

And although I know there are too many blogs out there only posting pics of the cute kids, but I can’t resist and have to show you two more beautiful photos of our little angel.

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