Kari goes ashore in Strusshamn.
Yesterday, tuesday 1 july, was a mixed day, some good, some less good. We arranged to meet Kari’s daughter Hanne and her partner Sander for a restaurant meal in Bergen, prior to Kari travelling home to Sandefjord, by several busses.
Packing didn’t take long, as Kari knew that space on Josin was restricted, and one bag, quite voluminous, and surprisingly heavy, was enough.
Then a taxi to the bus terminal and bus to Bergen.
Note the crutches hanging from a thin blue-and-white rope. Very useful apparently.
We ate Indian, very tasty and quite enough, (no room for pud), but for my ears, equipped with new and much better hearing aids, too much noise. Rather spoiled the possibility for conversation.
Another taxi, via my bus stop to heave me out, to Hanne and Sander’s for the night.
So, this morning, Hanne accompanied Kari to her bus and off she went:
I left Strusshamn after breakfast and motored in to the boat-things shop in Bergen to buy new connection bits, to change out the damaged ones and cure the AIS alarms for good, (I hope), then set off north in glorious sunshine, (Bergen…. amazing!), but with a strong wind on the nose, to find a place to hide from the rain forecast for tomorrow evening and two days.Tonight we are tied up to a mini-jetty on an island where I’ve been before, but not the shelter from the coming wind direction, so we’ll go a bit further tomorrow.
So now I’m back to solo sailing and must start planning, as Shetland is now off. Tomorrow is another day.
Alls well,
SoloJohn
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