A dreamlike place

Current location: Nynäshamn, Sweden

As I came back to the harbor after having been out sailing for three days, I finally had some time to reflect on what I just had experienced. I walked into a fancy harbor restaurant that still has maintained that rugged sailors feel to it in spite of it’s prices, still wearing my foulies, and I ordered a coffee. I sat down outside, and with my messy hair and newly acquired tan the city folks wearing “marine clothing” gave me curios yet respectful glances as I walked on by. I scrolled through my pictures from the past couple of days, and I could not stop grinning nor looking through them over and over. We had joked around all weekend that everything was a “Kodak moment”, and all of my pictures was proof of that. Before making my decision about not going back working on sailing boats in the Caribbean I thought long and hard whether I would be regretting that decision – after all, the Caribbean is one of the most incredible places I have been. But after having sailed in the Swedish archipelago these couple of days, I stand behind my decision and my previous years’ claim that the archipelago in Sweden a good summer day really is the most beautiful place on earth. All the world’s places got nothing on this place. It has now been two days since the weekend, and I am still at awe. I couldn’t even begin to explain to make the experience justice. All I can do is to invite you to come sailing here.