Photoblog » On shore http://www.ravenblood.org/blog And of this pales to utter insignificance in light of the fact that my ship is once again gone, savvy? Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:31:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Landed in the dessert… http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2010/05/24/landed-in-the-dessert/ http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2010/05/24/landed-in-the-dessert/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 20:35:02 +0000 admin http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/?p=633 for a sailor men: since May I landed in a city called Aachen and it is located next to Belgium and Netherlands. Well I like particularly girls that speak German with a French accent, so Belgium is not to bad…but! there is no water here. Non! Not even the smallest puddle that would allow to sail a dinghy with a towel. Frustrating? Ohh yes, indeed!

So what drives me to write just a few sentence with no pictures?

Well I went to Cologne to grill some German sausages with some friends (we had a very nice salad to, thanks to K.). In fact we have been on a grassland close to the river Rhein. Water! And can you imagine I saw boats again…jet-skies and motor boats, but not even a single sailing boat. Not a single crazy German like me that is using his towel in a little dinghy to sail up the Rhein with wind from astern (which in fact is forbidden in Germany, maybe because only Germans are crazy would due crazy stuff like that?).

You cannot imagine how much I miss it to have the Atlantic not anymore a ten minutes walk away from home. Even not the 1,5m on 0,9m Portuguese flag in my bedroom is helping to overcome the home sickness for Portugal. Hopefully I have a rendezvous in august with Portugal an all the nice and friendly people I met there.

Well after all this day (besides I was not in Portugal) was really a very nice and relaxing day. And not a single picture, shame on me!

]]> http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2010/05/24/landed-in-the-dessert/feed/ 0 Autumn impression http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2009/11/02/autumn-impression/ http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2009/11/02/autumn-impression/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:51:38 +0000 admin http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/?p=603 Usually we do not realize anymore so much what is usually for us and we forget to see the paradise just at the wayside:
P1100276 P1100277 P1100283 P1100288 P1100289 P1100291 P1100292 P1100294 P1100297 P1100299

]]> http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2009/11/02/autumn-impression/feed/ 0 Relocation of a boat http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2009/09/18/relocation-of-a-boat/ http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2009/09/18/relocation-of-a-boat/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:29:16 +0000 admin http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/?p=535 For trips with a sailing boat on the river Douro it is usually necessary to take off the mast. Or you just have a small boat. Since there was a very good possibility to get one of those small boats a relocation had to be done. After waiting some time until an axle for the trailer was found it was possible to pick up the boat.
In Germany it is allowed to have a trailer without brakes up to max. 750kg. Well I guess we slightly exceed this weight. Therefore I was driving quite carefully and not faster then 60km/h on the highway. No pictures while driving, but right before and after. The boat will get a new paint and the interior will be rebuild. This will be done hopefully quite soon and then the Douro suited sailing boat is available. P1090337 P1090338

]]> http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2009/09/18/relocation-of-a-boat/feed/ 0 Short trip from Póvoa to Leixões on the boat GINdungo http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2009/04/25/short-trip-from-povoa-to-leixoes/ http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2009/04/25/short-trip-from-povoa-to-leixoes/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:35:05 +0000 admin http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/?p=252 p1060150

p1060155

p1060156

p1060158

p1060160

p1060163

p1060185

p1060186

p1060190

p1060192

p1060193

p1060200

p1060207

p1060208

p1060213

p1060215

]]> http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2009/04/25/short-trip-from-povoa-to-leixoes/feed/ 0 Vila do Conde http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2008/12/14/vila-do-conde/ http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2008/12/14/vila-do-conde/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:06:51 +0000 admin http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/?p=109 Quite a stormy day:
p1040606

p1040786

p1040789

p1040792

p1040794

Since inside it was much more comfortable we had a nice lunch and enjoyed the view out of the windows:
p1040881

p1040882

p1040879

]]> http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2008/12/14/vila-do-conde/feed/ 0