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After Ireland, some days in my family in Belgium, before coming back in Switzerland. I met with pleasure my family and my friends and I'm looking for a job and a place to stay.
All that is done in peace and serenity.
Thank you again for all of you who helped us along our journey. Wish you all the best.
François

Two weeks in Gallway, two days walk in the Kerry, around Kilarney, and its beautiful lake. Now, I'm in Cork.

Back home, finally, after a little walk in the Wicklows and their monastery, Dublin and its museum, Britany and the swiss mountains

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after being back from the viking market, we tried to go further south heading to dublin, but the winds are definitivly South west now...

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We are now in Ardglass, home port for the irish vikings we met in Gudvangen, music and this week end we go to a viking market in Swords, near Dublin.

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First days for Bastien who handle it very well, even no northern wind.
Glenarm, viking friendly marina and Larne, a nice Yacht club where we could sleep in a good shelter...

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LondonDerry. London for the protestants, Derry for the catholics. I hadn't thought to stop here, but I finf a lot of what I was looking for. Libraries with historical, archeological and theological books, traditionnal music in the pub at night. I've been invited by Mike, a friend I met in the Ballycastle's fair. He's a sound engineer and we're going to records some music this afternoon. Thank you to all the musicians I've met since my entry in Ireland. I hope being able to play some irish tune...
François

After we left Francois, the hitchiking was so good that we had to reach Derry in a bus.
We payed and sung a little in front of a shopping centre and John, Karen and Eille went to drive us to their home in donegal

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after a quiet hard crossing , we reached Ballycastle safe and sound.
we were ther just in time for the "lammas fair", the oldest fair in irland, music, in the streets and evening sessions in the pubs.
Take over of th e new crew
Francois in (london)DERRY.
Julien and Flo are by an Irish musician, visiting the donegal and else

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Yesterday, we could see Irland, from Islay, but today it has disapeard.

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Holidays in Skye, music in Fort William. Gonna be hard to reach Irland!

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No sight of Nessie. one birthday party ful of nice meetings. How to deal a cannal fee when totally broken. Hollydays in Skye .

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Good crossing onboard the cargo, the weather is nice with us for our first days in Scotland. a lot of rowing for reaching inverness, but ther we are! Heading for the Caledonian canal, forgoty the north cape, with it's currents to 7 knots, it's waves and it's pirates...

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So good to live in Bergen and to meet you all in Gudvangen. The sun was with us, nice people all around. Really thank you Atla and Jette for the home you gave me for a while. I will come again and welcome you in the cows country.
Inger Lise! Really happy to know you're with us in mind. I can imagine the spectale of you're hair in the wind and look forward seeing it again...

always in Bergen. little trip to Gudvangen and we participate to the first viking market. leaving for scotland friday and hope in Aberdeen on sunday.

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thanks for your offers, but for the month of september, i got enough peopple to complete my crew( i like saying it like this, seems like i got a big ship with at least 20 crew members...)
but i'll keep your proposition for crossing the channel... later in the next spring.

We will stay for a few days in this city, to have time to find a place on a cargo going to scotland, and to go to a viking meeting a bit more north, having Fenrir on a trailer...
we play every days on the streets of this big and crowded city.

Ronald, chief officer of a coastal maintenance ship, met in Rørvik invited us to his island,Giske where they play every two years a viking theatre, in an open sky arena, build by the peopple of the island.

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sail the ship, arrived to ålesund, where we are waiting to go to giske, to see a theatre about the vikings.
every things ok, but we loos the Kristiansund expedition.

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Im looking for a new crew to replace Francois who is leaving in Irland.
end of august and september!
every one's welcome, tell it to other's!!

After rørvic, the nice weather days asked by me, julien, came. Meeting with little dolphins, a seal, riding the sea, pushed by a little storm to reach Trondheim.
Many meetings, peopple from the harbour, neighbors, streets peopple , blacksmith, stones carver, windows makers, who are restauring the cathedral and some role players and the local Bikers from different MC clubs ( Harleys, from Ruthless Mc, Lady bikers...)

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I really can´t support to wait for the wind...

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Aegir was with us nearly all the day, allowing us to cover a big distance to be in a town for playing a saturday.

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7 days since we left Bodø, a very interessant sailing between little islands waterways

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the saltstraumen was not a big deal, when you´re there at the good time....Arrived at 2 in the morning in the town of Bodø, where we played some music for the following weeks. First night in a small island.

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A dozen of pictures of the ship launching inaugurate a new page which will be completed during the journey and as I receive images. If you have pictures of our brave Vikings, you can send them to me.

Saturday afternoon, a big crowd was gathering at the Kai Linde's shipyard, to join the name party and to help to carry the ship to the water for her first touch...

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Little trip to Bodø to make music in the street and earn some money.

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we want to thanks our friends and familly for their support befor and now by their messages, we also want to thanks Passe Montagnes in lausanne for the sleeping bags and over-bags, paid by mr. Grønbjerg from Hydro,Bucher&walt for the price on our equipment and Frederik from Sailing Team in Brussels for the life jaquets and the suits, without forgeting all the very friendly peopple who takes us from the streets to give us a roof and a meal for a while, they begin to be quiet a lot!!!

Oiling again and again, rowing, sailing, sewing, leather working, music, singing, cooking.

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We are back from a 5 days trip around the Lofoten islands,sailing on a two masts schooner from 1868.

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In Rognan, the nigts are quite fresh and the days sunny. We pass our days painting and oiling. Julien is making a wooden box to put our things. We hope to borrow a boat those next days and begin to try our rowing muscles.

Driving through oslo. Tomorrow morning heading north for 1200 km ...
The custom was a bit fun when trying to explain what we are supposed to do in norway...