The happiest country in the world
Maeve and Adrian Bell have been sailing together for 40 years. They have recently cruised Denmark and the Baltic in their Arcona 430
young friend speaks excellent German’, remarked the hospitable German couple who had invited the three of us on ‘Your board for a drink. We were comfortably tied up in the Danish harbour of Helsingør, in the shadow of Kronborg Castle. My husband Adrian and I looked at each other, laughed, and explained that Jannik was actually German, although living in Denmark and brought up in Northern Ireland.
Visiting Helsingør had not been part of our plan at all. We had met Jannik at Gothenburg, our Arcona 430, three weeks earlier. The intention was to make our way south, crossing the Skagerrak to the northern tip of Denmark and then exploring the Jutland coast before laying up in Augustenborg for the winter.
