This Part 2 of our article on our sailing ship pilgrimage to Scandinavia takes up the story as we commenced our Swedish/Finnish itinerary in southern Sweden. Sweden is a very maritime nation and everywhere we travelled - in Gothenburg, in Stockholm and in the Swedish speaking Baltic islands – there is the evidence of this background.

It has taken over two years and is an amazing work of art.  We agreed that a conventional varnished cradle was not the way to display the model and we opted for an ‘on the hard at Noakes’ as the most suitable and appropriate approach.