Argentina here I come!

Hi everyone,

As you may have noticed I have not been very active here for a while.. And that's a long story, to long to tell and maybe not really of interest either.

Any way like Henrik wrote earlier Circomara have and are going through a lot of changes, because I will not be apart of it.. Not for a while at least, because I have just received a message from a circus school in Argentina that

I GOT IN!!

Which means that I will move to Argentina and continue my training there. They have really good aerial teachers and the school is also focused on dance which I am very interested in combining aerial and dance, so I think it will be just perfect for me!

But I really hope for Circomara to continue its journey and I wish it all the best of luck and I think what ever happens it will be supergreat!


 Tonight I will do my first single performance in a pub in the central of Dublin called The Twisted Peppers. I feel a bit nervous but it will be allrighty!

Hopefully me and Henrik will do a show in Galway as well in the last week of January! That will be amasing!

Hope to see you all there ;)


Love!
Marina

Happy!

Happy new year!!!!

New project coming up for 2014! Best year ever!

Best regards
Henrik

From the act we did in the barn's christmas cabaret. Hopefully we can get an video of the whole thing up soon!

Photos from Tralee Circus festival 2013! 

Some changes, how fast things can happend in a month or a second, sailing circus Circomara is going throught some changes and where its heading we will see this spring, hopefully to grow into something bigger and with a different approach, there are so many ideas and far more possibilities. More about this in the coming months. Circomara as in Marina and Henrik will perform atleast one more show in The Dublin circus projects Christmas cabaret. on the 21th of December.

Henrik, Dublin

Dublin

Swopp! That summer passed fast, I just realized its November and its cold outside. Dublin is rainy and squally.. We're in an marina close to city center and all is well. Going from Ardglass was more or less as uncomfortable as we had imagined with the 20 kn wind from SE, making them splashy waves smashing against us.. Anyways, made it here a bit wet and tired.. Feels like we've been here forever but its just over a month..

 Omg, Tintomara looks so big, could it be cause we're in the small boat sction of the marina? This our spot, couldnt have choosed a more romantic one, just across the river is the container and ferry terminal. River liffey cuts the city like a meandering blue vein someone wrote. We have bicycles, training acrobatics and working a bit. .Lets hope for a warm winter, 20+ please. .

And yeah, Allthought not much on it atm, we have launched a website www.circomara.com

yeah yeah ok ok hej hej

 

Caledonian canal - Northern Ireland

We're in Ardglass, southeast of northern Ireland. Heading for straight for Dublin in just a few hours..

Puilladohr, ouilla, pullalochdore, pui something something anchorage.

In Oban we got stuck waiting out a storm for almost a week, it was squally and wet, costing us a fortune staying in the marina but was only way to get some sleep for thoose windy days. Finally the wind eased and we could continue. Going throught the sound of Luing we were making 9 knots in the streams, we looked into the feared gulf of corrywrekan, it looked calm, we kept our distance anyway. We made it to Craighouse and continued to Port Ellen the next day. Crossing the North channel we had to motor some of the way, the sea lay flat and the current pushing us past Rathlin island with full speed,  made it to Glenarm in Northern Ireland just as the tide turned.

Marina in Loch ness

 With the current with us and the wind against us the next day we met some nasty waves and decided to make it a short day we went in to the cosy industrial harbour of Larne and anchored south of an powerplant. Everything was wet, the last week had given us very little sun and everything inside the boat was damp and wet. Next hop we decided to make a longer one to get out of the north channel for some nicer weather and less currents. Arrived in Ardglass in the middle of the night.

From here we plan to go straight to Dublin(around 60nm), its blowing around 20 kn from the southeast and the irish sea looks choppy, i think its gonna be a wet passage. But we wanna get there, not spend another week waiting for good weather. In Dublin it seems like we will spend some time. We're tired.. The weatehr is getting nastier, we wanna stop for a while. Going two persons without an autopilot from Sweden to Ireland kind of makes you tired. In Dublin we want some time to practice on our circus shows, and maybe work if we can find some job.

Lets hope the waves will not be too steep tonight!

Crossing the north channel in calm conditions

       

Caledonian canal

We have now just get through the Caledonian canal. It took us 8 days, because some engine problems we got stuck in Port August for two more days and nights than we had expected. 

We meet a really sweet couple last night that was a really good help. We were thinking of buying the charts for the continuing travel from Corpach to Ireland in Inverness but because we had to hurry up to get to the next bridge before they would close fore the day we thought we could buy this in Fort William instead. But this couple told us that there were no shops where we could buy charts before Oban, and that felt as a to long way to travel without anything...

But as I said they where really nice and in the end we ended up with all the charts we needed and they didn't want anything. Some of the charts was from the late 70s !

They gave us a little card with their address so that we can keep in contact, I love this kind of gentle old people that is still doing there dream! They had been sailing the north sea this summer, in 50 knots wind, that is really rough I will promise. So now they where stuck until they had reapered some things on the boat.

 After beeing stucked in Whitehills for so long it has been really great to be in places where there are people that you can talk to and the canal was calm and nice.

But the weather just gets colder and wetter so we hope to get to the sun as fast as possible!

Lossiemouth

Lossiemouth - largest beach ever