Busy last weeks

We are now back in home port, Brandenburg Plaue getting Linquenda ready to leave for winter.
Our last couple of weeks flown by, filled with lovely happy memories.

OK all you grandparents out there, here is a little tree house the grandkids would love.





We had a wonderful evening at the Sanssouci Palace Gardens in Potsdam. A series of concerts were held about the 290ha of park, gardens and various Palaces and follies that make up Sanssouci. As night fell the different Palaces, follies gardens etc were lit up, actors wandered around in costume, music played and grand finale at midnight there were fireworks! Pity about the fog that appeared around midnight too. Pity too that the camera on my tablet decided to start playing up so hardly any photos taken


A lovely few days with Lars and Astrid on board





A cycle into Brandenburg to see the gardens at BUGA, we had been to Rathenow earlier in the season where there had been tulips by the millions, as beautiful and stunning as they were thought we would wait until latter in the season to see some different type of flowers in Brandenburg. We were not disappointed.


Waldmöpse , these dear little statues dotted about the place, in various posses. Waldmöpse is the fictional character of Ehrenbürger Vicco von Bülow .

Wall Exploring

The Berlin Wall total length 156.4km, 43.7km through Berlin and 112.7km around the outskirts. This can be broken down to
63.8km through built up areas
32km through woods
22.7 through open terrain
38km water border, lakes and rivers
The Wall was actually comprised of two walls with a no man's land or death strip of between 500 & 750mt wide, 186 watchtowers, 31command towers & 484 guard dogs.
Amazingly there were 5075 successful escapes through the death strip and under and over the wall, this also included 574 desertions by East German border guards. Sadly there were at least 136 deaths that are known about of failed attempts to escape.
The wall went up overnight, 13th August 1961, West Berliner's woke to find their city cut off from the rest of the world , East Berliners cut off from any escape to the west via West Berlin. Supplies of essentials were air lifted to West Berlin until such time as the Russians backed down and let supplies in by road and water again .
following the route of the wall

dirt tracks, paved tracks

Along the way are remains of the wall with information boards telling of the human stories

Die Glienicke Brüker , famous bridge in Potsdam where spies were swapped in 60's, this bridge was the border between the USSR sector and the American sector.

The sign for Mauerweg , Wall way, follow these signs to trace the path of the wall.
Over the past two summers we have explored much of the wall, endlessly fascinating. Have also met people who have escaped via the sewer, others who were penalised because their son escaped, so many stories.

A week of celebrations with Helga

Helga, Knud's mum, arrived at the same time summer arrived. Now if there is one person, apart from Filippa, who loves the hot weather and lots of sunshine that Helga. Well known amongst family and friends for her devotion to picking up the suns rays she was not disappointed when she arrived in Berlin on 3rd August. A week of temperatures in the high 30's , had us exhausted but Helga energised

First thing , go for a swim. Helga jumps off the side of Linquenda , I on the other hand go carefully down the ladder.

Helga's 82nd Birthday celebrated


Enjoying cruising around the lakes south of Berlin

Cooling off with a refreshing beer

and another

The sights one see's, fellow out with his parrots for an evening drink

Kreuzberg, a buzzy hip suburb in Berlin, fantastic restaurants, and we can moor right in the middle of it all

Of course it wasn't all eating and drinking, we did do some sightseeing, here Helga stands in front of the Brandenburg gate

What a social time

The bizarre summer weather continued, rain, wind , overcast, cool. The advantage of all this was that there were far less mosquitoes, flies, wasps etc.

Jytte, Sved Ove and Knud up on deck


Sved Ove, Knud and Jens Christian enjoying a beer , not long before they were driven inside when the next gale force winds began

While the lads bonded over a beer Bodil and Jytte & I went exploring the village.


Too windy and wet to eat up on deck so all cozy downstairs, with 8 adults at the table there wasn't much room left over for dancing.

Our gorgeous nieces, Josefine and Cecilie

Torben and Jette

Wonderful that friends and family from Denmark have been to visit us, lots of laughing and of course the many political discussions that happen when a bunch of Danes gather together. The world has been sorted out you will be relieved to know.

Enjoying the lakes

A wonderful 6 days with Anne and Andreas visiting, sun shone, and warm enough to be swimming from Linquenda.

Early morning on Zootzersee, pulling up anchor before heading to a good quay , the expected storm not far behind.

Great wall sculpture, now you know what to do with all those extra garden tools.

Out cycling and found wild blue berries growing! a lot of of work to collect a few to make some jam with but worth the effort

As you can see the berries are tiny, but trust me they are very tasty.


Chloe and Knud

Anne, Chloe and Anette out mucking about in the row boat. Wonderful having these gorgeous girls on board.

Germany in July

Where does the time go, suddenly realised that it's been a couple of weeks since the last sign of life from us.
Seen while out cycling, do like a quirky sculpture.


Our gorgeous great nieces ,Anne and Freya.

Water Lillies growing en masse , gives an almost tropical feel to some of the canals

Our niece Stine, her partner Kim and Anne and Freya enjoy a swim from Linquenda on a hot day. We had a lovely anchorage in a sheltered bay and all took advantage of cooling off on numerous occasions.

Now this is service. Fellow delivers fresh smoked fish, ice creams, beer, bread, cake etc Arrived a just the right moment when the troops were longing for an ice cream.

After some wonderful days with Stine, Kim , Anne and Freya we said our goodbyes then headed up to Neustrelitz. Autumn had felt like it had arrived, strong winds, overcast and cool. Neustrelitz is a pretty town that in recent years undergone a bit of a makeover. This photo of the main square plaza , reminded us a little of Nancy. Had been a grand place once upon a time with a huge Palace, since destroyed however palace gardens still exist.

Wäschespülhaus , a little folly built in 1821 in a Chinese style down by the lakes edge.
Has been difficult to get any good photos because light has been so poor. Promise of better weather latter this week, maybe even sunshine!!

The sun is shinning

Oh happy days, the sun is shinning the sky is blue


Cruising out of Lübz early morning the light on and reflections of the little boat houses beautiful






I do love a pretty door and certainly not disappointed in Plau am See.






Plau am See a lovely little town that is being slowly done up. A number of day boat sightseeing trips from here around the Plau lake so the influx of tourists gives the place a bit of a buzz.


Well, what can I say. Actually what I said was shit where is my camera.
Your eyes don't deceive you. It is a dog and a racoon out for their evening paddle.