Back to planning and preparing

It has been quiet for months now on this blog. The reason has been I moved out, left my husband and now I am divorced since beginning of this month. This very sad process has taken most of my energy and time, but now that is behind me and I can take up planning and preparing for my dream again.

In May, months ago, I found out, at a regatta here in Switzerland, that one of the fellas, Florian, spent 6 weeks sailing with his girlfriend in Sweden during the summer 2003. Hearing of my plan he offered to lend me all his sailing charts and books even if they are dated. Over summer we tried to meet up during a regatta again, but it just did not happen. So we ended up making a date for my visit in Zürich to get oriented and pick up all the stuff.

This date was set for Thursday this week and Kathrin my good friend, who knows Florian well, got wind of my planned visit and joined. So we ended up two “girls” at Florian’s dining table with his wife, 3 year old son and 4 months old daughter in the background, eating pizza and having wine chatting about their Sweden sailing experience.

Most tips I noted down in my little black notebook and after a great evening I carried home all this stuff on the picture. It was so heavy to carry, even if I only had to walk from one train to the other platform and then to the bus and from the bus stop home another 500 meters. I had to set my load down about every 100-150 meters to rest.

I am so happy to have all this stuff to look through and start planning and dreaming.