RAISING SAIL

For a long time it had been my dream to sail the world, but as the years went by it stayed just that – an abstract idea, always out of reach, too immense to become a reality. There were two main hurdles that got in the way; firstly, I didn’t know how to sail a boat big enough for a circumnavigation. Secondly, I didn’t have enough money to buy such a boat. So time passed and I scraped by, paying the monthly bills and watching my children, Ottilie and Arva, get older, eagerly awaiting the occasional van trip during the all-too-short school holidays.

It was on one of these trips that everything changed. We were pulled into a lay-by on a hill high above the water, overlooking Ulva on