All the Letters home

St. Nazaire 10/8/1935Yes, now here I am again today and will finish the letter but first I ask you to send money if there is still any left to Le Consulat Denmark, Place du Basin, St. Nazaire, ca. 500 francs as soon as possible. We would rather wait hare for […]

St. Nazaire 10/9/1935 Yes, as you see, we are still in St. Nazaire. (can’t seem to get away). Now we have finally finished with all those affairs we have got and everything straightened out here. The weather is teasing us and if it’s not raining its too much wind or […]

St. Nazaire, France 9/28/1935 Today you can be sure the radio has been on all the time, we have had Spain, England, Paris of course, Holland, and Das Große Vaterland only Kalundborg was silent but may be it was not working otherwise it would have been a treat to be […]

St. Nazaire, France, 9/27/1935 Many thanks for your letter, birthday greetings, saileports and money. As nice as it is to get a money letter but packed with such news the nice part you almost forget about, that was a terrible surprise with the bank, but how can our obligations have […]

Brest, 8/26/1935 Yesterday we started bound for Brest from a little French. harbor “L’Abervrack” where we had arrived from Falmouth. According to the plan and from informative sources with the local knowledge the sail-trip should last 6 flours so when we started at 3 in the afternoon with the tide […]

Plymouth, 8/10/1935 Many thanks for the letter and the magazine “Sail Sports” and the pictures. That Marie has become an unknown person is not our fault but Valdemar’s. You yourself noticed it on the first picture you mailed and the copy we now have shows it much clearer. There you […]

Poole, 7/23/1935 RYES Castle, Cowes (Royal Yacht Squadron) Dear Vacationing folks! Welcome back home again. Yesterday we finally reached Poole, in excited anticipation that the mail was laying waiting for us and Marie and Valdemar didn’t let us down. No less then 4 letters, money letter, sail sports magazine, a […]

Blankenberge, 7/5/1935 Yes, as you see for to complete the mess in the correspondence I now write from a fourth and completely different place but it’s a little difficult for us to figure out the speed. Anyway, today we got your letter sent to Ostende, Belgium, heartily thanks! Ostende has […]

Vlissingen, Netherlands 6/27/1935 Now I better get started with telling you all about the last exciting days here in Vlissingen, Netherlands where we have met a gentleman working at the measuring office. He and his wife have been extremely friendly to us. It started with Peter who should learn a […]

Vlissingen, Netherlands, 6/23/1935 Probably you say now this letter finally must arrive. The last time has been so extremely busy and overfilled especially with the social life so I couldn’t find one quiet minute away from Rysbroek. We finally did get off from Rysbroek. Just now Peter came home with […]