From Hamburg to Sweden !!

Hi everybody !
The time in Hamburg went swoooosh and thre weeks were gone. Lots of visits with friends and family made our time not boring. Denise learned again some more German and enjoied meeting many new playmates. The City habour placed perfect in the center of the town was cheaper than most Swedish,Danish,French or English boathabours, and from the cockpit you could watch all kind off interresting ships,boats vessels, the subway or people strolling over the pier.
Next stopover was Glückstad a smaller town down the river Elbe where we changed the folding propeller to a fixed one in order to get better propulsion specially in backward gear. Thanks to the "Yachtwerft Glückstadt" !
After a short stop in Borsfleth for another meeting with my father in his boat "Boe", we sailed into the Kiel-Kanal where we moored halvway for the night. The decision to start in light fog next morning, thinking it would lift soon, was not the best, we motored for two hours with very little visibility along the channelside, feeling very unpleasant. Anyway we arived in Kiel-Holtenau the day after . As to much wind, we had the time to stay in Charlottes old Unitown for about 3 days, getting visit from a cousin with children, exploring the town and having dinner in the good old "Bergklause".
After the wind had gone down a bit, we could sail on to Fynshavn on Denmarks island Als. Next morning we run under engine against very little wind into the "little belt" and had a nice daystopover on Bågö. After having had a nice walk and some time on the beach in Summertemperatures we went on to a small ankring place just before Middlefart.
Next morning we went on under engine (no wind) and enjoied lots off real common dolphins and some seals in the last part of the "little belt" + the first part of the kattegatt. Sunshine, water like a mirror and many dolphins jumping-- we hadent seen anything like this since the first part of our atlantic crossing ! Never had I seen real dolphins in the baltic anyhow.
That night we stopped in Hou/Hov having a BBQ. From there we sailed on to Grena, arriving late, leaving early again for Halmstad in Sweden. The sail over from Grena took 12 hours motorsailing for the 65sm hard on the wind, so we were really happy to get into Halmstad just before dark. Here Anna ,Charlottes Sister picked us up and we had a nice evening with her and Marcus at their home.
At the moment we are still here, waiting for the wind to go down so that we can sail on northward.
See ya all soon,
The Samponians