Summer holiday begins: Vormö island
Originally uploaded by Greygriffin.

Our four-week summer holiday has begun, and today we sailed from Helsinki to Vorm̦, 7 hours of fast sailing through the coastal archipelago with a good tailwind. At Vorm̦ Nokia has twenty summer cottages which employees can rent cheaply Рvery basic cottages with electricity but no running water, but Finns like them that way.

The photo shows Kittiwake (leftmost sailing boat) moored at the Vormö jetty. We’ll spend the next week based here at our cottage, barbequeing, saunaing, going for short day cruises, and just generally lazing about. Then, weather permitting, we’re off for two or three weeks cruising the Turku archipelago.