FINAVIA WITHOUT COMMENTS

"FROM POLAR CIRCLE TO LEVANT" SELLS IT'S APARTMENT IN KEMI

After many partners in this project has left an empty place in our long term project, we have decided to put up for sale our family apartment in Kemi , Meri-Lappi , Finland.  The surrounding near the  apartment  is  typical 19th century Finnish burgess borough  with lot of leave trees and green area and you feel the presence of the Gulf of Bothnia.

The apartment consists of two bedrooms, one big lounge, kitchen and two bathrooms. Also there is a big glass covered balcony, a wardrobe and a store-room. The house owner has facilities for sauna and an outdoor parking place. Price 72000 € .  Contact E-mail : globetrotters@yandex.com

The apartment is situated in the 2nd floor with a view over this area in the photo.

The lounge and the door to the glass covered balcony.

The scene to the kitchen.

SAILING BOAT OBECHE AND IT'S SKIPPER KARI ÖFVERBERG

I had a dream to sail with my brother to Mediterranean till Alicante where I have my farmhouse. I kept my illusion alive  although my brother  insisted that its a too long and hard voyage for him.
Last time when I was in Kemi, in Northern Finland, we were only speaking of his future  visit in next April to Spain  with his wife Marja.
All was wonderful till I received the  sad news, that he my younger brother Kari  had perished few hours  ago in his home town Kemi at the age of 64.
To fill the empty area which I have now after his death I decided to make a photo collage of all the important things in his life.

 "OBECHE" waiting his master in the cold February sun on it's dock in Kemi yacht harbour.

 Our mother, Kari and the youngest sister celebrating the last Christmas 2013 together .

 My brother always happy and pleasant to everybody on board of his own handmade sailing boat.

 Kari 8.2.2014 with her wife Marja in front of the famous Kemi Snow Castle.

 Our last fishing trip on ice 9.2. 2014 near the Kemi swimming beach.

 I always wanted to visit  Haparanda Town Hotel, famous secret agent meeting point during World War II.

 Kari and me freezing inside the Snow Castle, or at least I look more frozen.

 The famous land mark in "Meri-Lappi" area , Haparanda water tower.

 The church of ALATORNIO , built by the KING GUSTAF ADOLF THE II  of Sweden in the 16th century.

 The beautiful medieval wooden church of TORNIO.

Me looking the old "resting" place for my ancestor Ferdinand . Soon my brother will have his own in Kemi cemetery.

 MY DEAR BROTHER, WHEN WE DEPARTED AT OULU AIRPORT YOU GAVE ME A PEN DRIVE, IT WAS MARVELOUS TO FIND OUT YOUR TALENT TO GATHER OUR FAMILY HISTORY AND PUT IT TOGETHER WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND DATES.
JOUKO 26.2.2014 LOS VIVES, SPAIN

MS WILHELM GUSTLOFF

I have chosen two ships, which will be remembered during the voyage. SS John Crafton which wrecked  in front of  Kokkola (Gamlakarleby) on  the Gulf of Bothnia and MS Wilhelm Gustloff with nine thousand (9000) German civilians on board,which had been evacuated from the East Prussia's town Königsberg.  The MS Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed by a Russian submarine 30th of January 1945 on  the Baltic Sea.
At the SS John Crafton wreck we lay a Memory Plate, ORRSKÄR , 8th of SEPTEMBER 1905, SS JOHN CRAFTON .
 On the Baltic Sea on the hypothetical sinking place we lay down  a GARLAND in the sea with the obituary : TO THE MEMORY OF  THE  9000 PEOPLE WHO PERISHED THEIR LIVES IN THIS TRAGEDY ON  A  COLD WINTER DAY ,  30TH OF JANUARY 1945.

SS JOHN CRAFTON, THE FLAG SHIP.

MS WILHELM GUSTLOFF.

The map of East Prussia .

             CAPTAIN OF THE BOAT

FROM KÖLN TO STRASBOURG

From Köln we sail south, towards Bonn, then Koblenz,Mainz, Karlsruhe and cross the French boarder in Strasbourg. During this last stage in Germany we buy more food supply, like sausages and beer.We take the route to Mulhouse using the French Canal du Rhone au Rhin.The sluice can be ecluse de Kembs-Niffer or we take the branche sud.

Scanpolar sailing team

DETAILED ITINERARY FROM NORTH SEA

Now I can give a more detailed itinerary for the sailing project, in the German canals. My information source has been www.water-ways.net.From the North Sea we pass German Bremerhafen and use Weser River till Elsfleth and sail further following Untere Hunte. Next Oldenburg and Küstenkanal, then Dörpen and River Ems,Meppen and Dortmund-Ems-Kanal. Münster, Offen, Datteln and Rhein-Herne-Kanal, Duisburg and Rhein, Düsseldorf and Köln. The Sailing project can be followed in FACEBOOK and TWITTER.

CHEF THOR

LÜBECK,BRATWURST,METTWURST UND BIER

In Lübeck we stop sailing for a while, and dive in the foamy North-Germany BIERSTUBE  culture.We will taste all famous sausages and mettwursts and try find out if there is still left something  from HANSA-sailors atmosphere .

CHEF THOR