sailing in kiel

I was skimming my blog when I realized two things: I haven't written about sailing this year, and that I haven't made a post about the race I finally went in June... so let's do it!

I orgnanized the trip with my parents and we went together with my sailing partner and another crew. We got on the van and started a 2000km ride to northern Germany: Kiel.

After two days driving, we arrived to the city and overslept there. The following day we went to the harbor and unloaded the boats. The organization there was brilliant: an enormous team of volunteers and staff were telling everyone what to do, where to go... A fleet of 56 Audi Q7 were waiting for our trailers and slide the motorboats into the water. 

Unfortunately we couldn't sail much because of the bad weather and the lack of wind. We did about six races in four days (which is far less than expected), however, it was amazing to sail there. Thousands of sailing boats were covering the bay in white, that was an astonishing spectacle!

The days were strikingly long, the sun rose at 3am and twilight was at 11pm. That was a bit confusing, but you soon get used to it. Due to the days being so long, we could get on the van and visit some interesting places. We saw both impressive gigantic forests and cozy little towns by the sea. One day we even went to Denmark! 

After an amazing week in Kiel it was time for us to return home... but we took our time in the return and stopped in several interesting places. We visited Hannover, Heidelberg and Freiburg. 

That trip to Kiel was an amazing way to start the summer vacation, I'm eager to return there as soon as possible!

Bis bald Deutschland!   

kiel

Last season, my coach told me about a very famous race celebrated in Germany: the Kieler woche (Kiels's week). He told us (to the team) about the race and instantly we wanted to go! unfortunately we finally didn't go, because it was expensive and a bit too far regarding that we had started that same year. But time's passed so fast and we are already preparing the calendar for next season and summer, and it seems like this June... we're traveling to Kiel!!!

I was already excited when I heard about that, but my excitement boosted when a couple of weeks ago the organization shared the promotional video for this year. I'm really looking forward for it, although it will be cold. Germany is a beautiful place, and as I've heard Kiel is great: just watching the video you can make an idea of how great the experience of being in that race would be. I can't wait to go there! 

It seems like Kiel's winds are not too hard nor too light (perfect!) and the temperature in June-July is like the average temp. here in middle spring. I'll have to wear my winter clothes again, but I think it is going to worth it. Another point to contemplate is the long journey to there, which is in northern Germany, about 2000Km far from Barcelona. We still have to decide if we're going there by plane or with our club's van, and there are a lot of details to settle...

I'll keep you informed!  

I've post the video up there! (the post just before this one...)