Amsterdam has been reached!
We have decided to write most of our posts in english from now on. (Most of you understand english anyway.)
After delaying the departure from Helgoland for a night because of scary waves, we left the litle island tuesday morning. Wednesday we reached the netherlands and entereded the canals. We realized straight away that this could be demanding on our nerves if we didn't stop looking at the depth meter. As norwegians we are used to being on full alert when there is less than 10 meters under our kiel. We have had an avarage of 0.5 meters under our kiel since we entered...
Going through the canals has been a nice break from all the gails we have had so far and the waves and tide. Going by boat in the canals is more like driving a car. You drive on untill you reach a red light and then you wait for the bridge to open. If it's late you just have to wait for the next morning. Sometimes it feels like we are trespassing through the backyards of people. We have experienced waving 'hello' to people having dinner while we are sailing past in heavy rain. For a norwegian this is on the boarder of being absurd.
The people here are almost overwhelmingly kind. When we had some problems with our sails in Lelyhaven, we got so many offers from people who wanted to help that we had to turn some of the offers down. A big thanks to the couple who drove us to the sailmaker in Lelyhaven and all the people involved in getting the sail to Amsterdam.
Here in Amsterdam we just realized that there is a gay-parade. Luckily David knew some girls that can protect us. (Young sailors from norway staying here only for the weekend might send some signals we didn't mean to send...)
Me har no kome til Amsterdam etter aa ha vore paa Helgoland og venta paa at ein kuling rett i fleisen skulle gi seg. Aa seile paa kanalane her i Nederland er litt slitsomt paa nervene. For ein nordmann er det ikkje berre behagelig aa jevnt over kun ha ein halv meter med vatn under kjoelen. Etter at me gjekk paa grunn foerste gongen slappa me derimot litt av. Det er mjuk botn saa eit lite dytt i revers er alt som skal til for aa bli fri.
Folka her er overmaate vennlige og alle snakker behagelig godt engelsk. Ellers kan det nevnast at det Amsterdam er ganske prega av at det er homo-parade her i helga. Heldigvis kjente David nokre soete jenter her som kan passe paa tri unge seilarar fraa Noreg. Me planlegg aa dra vidare soerover soendag.
Dutch version: Skjipper macht ek oewervaren, ja of ne?
After delaying the departure from Helgoland for a night because of scary waves, we left the litle island tuesday morning. Wednesday we reached the netherlands and entereded the canals. We realized straight away that this could be demanding on our nerves if we didn't stop looking at the depth meter. As norwegians we are used to being on full alert when there is less than 10 meters under our kiel. We have had an avarage of 0.5 meters under our kiel since we entered...
Going through the canals has been a nice break from all the gails we have had so far and the waves and tide. Going by boat in the canals is more like driving a car. You drive on untill you reach a red light and then you wait for the bridge to open. If it's late you just have to wait for the next morning. Sometimes it feels like we are trespassing through the backyards of people. We have experienced waving 'hello' to people having dinner while we are sailing past in heavy rain. For a norwegian this is on the boarder of being absurd.
The people here are almost overwhelmingly kind. When we had some problems with our sails in Lelyhaven, we got so many offers from people who wanted to help that we had to turn some of the offers down. A big thanks to the couple who drove us to the sailmaker in Lelyhaven and all the people involved in getting the sail to Amsterdam.
Here in Amsterdam we just realized that there is a gay-parade. Luckily David knew some girls that can protect us. (Young sailors from norway staying here only for the weekend might send some signals we didn't mean to send...)
Me har no kome til Amsterdam etter aa ha vore paa Helgoland og venta paa at ein kuling rett i fleisen skulle gi seg. Aa seile paa kanalane her i Nederland er litt slitsomt paa nervene. For ein nordmann er det ikkje berre behagelig aa jevnt over kun ha ein halv meter med vatn under kjoelen. Etter at me gjekk paa grunn foerste gongen slappa me derimot litt av. Det er mjuk botn saa eit lite dytt i revers er alt som skal til for aa bli fri.
Folka her er overmaate vennlige og alle snakker behagelig godt engelsk. Ellers kan det nevnast at det Amsterdam er ganske prega av at det er homo-parade her i helga. Heldigvis kjente David nokre soete jenter her som kan passe paa tri unge seilarar fraa Noreg. Me planlegg aa dra vidare soerover soendag.
Dutch version: Skjipper macht ek oewervaren, ja of ne?
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