Cruise notes
Many sailboat owners in Latvia are quite happy with their compact Gulf of Riga sailing area, a couple of regattas per season and the typical odd over-the-weekend destination Ruhnu (a tiny Estonian island), worse even, I am told that locked in a lake in Kurzeme (formerly known as Kurland) isolated from the sea there is a 32 foot Bavaria among quite a few smaller sailboats united by the lake-based Usma sailing club. Unlike them I become claustrophobic every time I so much as think of sailing in...
One of the best days of the voyage.
After a good night’s sleep I am sitting at the breakfast table with a fellow traveler and he has decided to join the ranks of the yachtsmen – I guess my stories have made him believe, that it is going to be fun. I expected the chili with mixed vegetables and shrimp to be a bit spicier, but it was good nevertheless. We had mango shake for dessert – it cost very little here, and is served nicely in a tall glass – a good start for a day on the waves.
We arrive at the airport at 11AM and I meet with Ralfs. Māris and Uldis arrive soon and we check in and go through the control zone to the tax-free area. We have a meal in LuLu and get on the plane that would get us to Paris in 2.5 hours. The plane is the same as any plane around so we take our time and fool around with our handheld GPS, following the course, speed and altitude of the plane. The course can be seen in the picture, the altitude was around 11 km and the speed was 700 kmph. An old...
The day we had agreed to meet at the airport has come and we are going to fly from Riga to Marseilles via Stockholm. We are a bit worried about the size of our luggage and the weight of it so we weight our bags and try to even it out. After the security check is finally over we get on the plane that should take us to Stockholm. After 4 hours we will take our flight to Marseilles. We have lunch and wait for the flight. We land in Marseilles late at night and rent several cars to get to the port...
