Time for big decisions (Patreon)

Arrived to Sommaroy, the "Summer island", and summer really seems to be here, with temperatures up to +18 C the last few days. For me this feels really crazy because last "summer" I was first in Svalbard and then afterwards much further north, close to North Cape, and I don't remember if I had a single warm day like this during the whole summer!

This is a pretty touristy island by my standards ;) Lots of people normally come over from Tromso for the weekend, especially if the weather is good. Lots of beaches and I'm hoping we get some wind the next coming days so I could do some kitesurfing. Southeast wind was predicted but hasn't materialized yet.

The summer/spring came really quickly. It's incredible how fast everything happens here, one week ago everything was gray and brown, now everything is suddenly green, birch trees suddenly have big leaves, grass is green as well...

I'm currently sailing solo as Sohvi went to Finland for work. Not sure when she can come back to boat as Norway-Finland border is currently closed. However likely to open soon.

Now is the time to make big decisions. This autumn I need to get back to EU (for many reasons, some boring but some very exciting, to be disclosed later ;) ).

Original plan was to sail to White Sea and then through Russia on the White Sea - Baltic Sea canal (also called the "Stalin canal"). It would be an exciting and a pretty different trip. We already had our paperwork and visas sorted out, lots of time and also some €€€ was invested. But because of corona I'm not sure if it is possible anymore. Border from Norway to Russia is still closed for unknown amount of time. And even if it opens, would it be wise to go or not?

Now I either wait here in northern Norway for more news about corona & Russia... or I start working my down south along the Norwegian coast. I can't wait too long before making a decision, because sailing down the coast is going to take a while. But currently still undecided.

If you have any good suggestions... let me know 😁

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