Goodbye, Fredrikstad!

The Tall Ship Races 2014 in Fredrikstad has come to an end. We had four glorious days with almost tropical weather and lots of fun 🙂 Yesterday the seventy ships left Dina’s hometown and we Bookfayries and Dina happily accepted the invitation to follow the ships to sea. This is definitely the nice side of …

Samphire – A Mermaid’s Kiss

Do you know samphire? We bet you don’t. Samphire (Salicornis europaea) – yummy yummy – is also known as sea asparagus or poor man’s asparagus. It’s a wild plant growing in abundance in the saltmarshes where it drowns twice a day. It’s a vegetable of ten to 15 centimeters hight and it’s gathered at our …