29th August– 23rd September It took us 31 hours to cross from Falmouth to Brest, arriving late in the evening, in a rainstorm. Slowly we sailed with wind from behind, right up until Chenal du Four where the current carried us along nicely at 10 knots… Our maximum speed is usually 7. Brest has a…

6th – 28th August It was a golden sunny evening when we sailed around the Pembrokshire coastline into Wales. After anchoring near the entrance to the Milford Haven estuary in the Dale, we had a nice chat with multiple confused members of the UK Border force who all seemed to think we should talk to…

23rd July – 6th August You can see Northern Ireland across the sea from Port Ellen, hazy and blue, it looks almost within reaching distance. Realistically though, Rathlin island (a wee island just before northern Ireland) was a good 20 miles away, and it took 5 hours to cross and get anchored. There are some…

31st June – 22nd July It was 4am as we sailed into the Kyle of Tongue, the sky (which never really got dark) went from dark grey, to light grey, and my grandparent´s house became visible through the drizzle just across the bay. We ate beans on toast, and slept. By the time we woke…

Nordsee ist boredsee The 27th of June was ideal for us to leave as there was a 4 day window with gentle wind. With tales of 10 metre waves from our Belgian neighbours who had sailed through the storm the night before, it was decided, we´d rather no wind than too much, and we would…

16th June- Arriving in Norway- We came to our first Norwegian islands at 12am after sailing all of the day and night before. It was an incredibly beautiful fjord with dark forests and pearly pink oysters shining on the rocks and funky sea weed that curls in floral patterns growing off of the rocks. The…

Wednesday the 7th June- There was very little wind when we left in the early morning, but the Strömung pulled us along at 3 knots into the middle of a shipping area, where it then disappeared and so did the wind. We had to motor out of the way, and the engine made a worrying…

28th May – 2nd June 2023 After weeks of unexpected repairs, building in our new engine, sending 62kilos of ´Gemüse Kisten` to Niels´s parents, we packed our Klapprad,  a pile of colourful PVC, a welder, a sewing machine, two guitars, an accordion, a Hoover and hopefully everything else we might need on our journey into…

We are Niels and Rumi, at the end of May 2023 we finally set sail, leaving North Germany behind. This blog is for you to follow our journeys as we live and travel on our little sailing boat Atlanta. We made our way up through the Danish islands to the west coast of Sweden accompanied…