Marstrand - die Zweite! ¤¤¤ MARSTRAND - SWEDEN - CONTINUED

After the last post many people asked questions - rather than answering them all individually, I think I will pick up where I left off, continue my story and answer them between the pictures...

NACH MEINEM LETZTEN POSTING WURDEN MIR VIELE FRAGEN GESTELLT... ICH DENKE, ES IST BESSER SIE HIER ZW. DEN BILDERN ZU BEANTWORTEN, ALS JEDEM EINZELN EINE ANTWORT ZU SCHICKEN:


This is the harbour of Marstrand, the Marina, to be precise, because this is not poor-man's island, here you can find some of the finest and most expensive yachts around!

It very much reminded me of Port Grimaud on the Côte D'Azur! You can see pictures of that in earlier posts on this blog.

Port Grimaud is also a place where you find the oh so decent middle class buying overpriced properties, which funny enough still seem to be increasing in value... Same story here. Nobody has any land, everybody's sitting on his neighbour's lap, pretty much packed like lab rats... where everybody is everybody elses "best friend", as long as you are considered a benifit and you can efford to be part of the game!

As for location... Marstrand is not to far away from the big city... Göteborg can even be reached by hourly busses!
In short the island can be discribed as a pretty, domesticated, civilized spot in what once has been a wilderness.

DIES HIER IST DER HAFEN UND VORALLEM YACHTHAFEN VON MARSTRAND.
ERINNERT SEHR AN PORT GRIMAUD (DER CÔTE D'AZUR-POST IST WEITER UNTEN IN DIESEM BLOG ZU FINDEN...)


But there is still some wilderness between the last two islands and the city... pictures of that will follow farther down on this post and that by the way is also where we stayed overnight.

ALLES SEHR ZIVILISIERT, DOCH VOR DEN LETZEN BEIDEN INSELN GIBT ES DOCH NOCH WILDNIS AUF DEM WEG NACH GÖTEBORG.


So why did we come here at all? Well to check it out, admire the pretty part of it and because I thought I might find something that I could use for a story in one of my books.

And I did find my inspiration!
You see one of my books starts off with a fancy yacht blowing up in the Mediterranian. The passengers manage to get off just in time, however the captain is missing and the owner dies later on - but of what? Did his doctor-friend let him die? Or is there somebody else who wants him dead because he's about to publish something which will rock the medical world?

ABER ICH WAR HIER UM INSPIRATION FÜR MEINE BÜCHER ZU FINDEN UND DIESMAL GING ES UM EIN BUCH, DAS HEISST "LEHRZEIT".

EINE YACHT EXPLODIERT IM MITTELMEER UND OBWOHL DIE PASSAGIERE SICH RETTEN KÖNNEN, STIRBT SPÄTER DER EIGENTÜMER.
WARUM? HAT SEIN ARZT-FREUND IHN ERSTICKEN LASSEN? ODER WAS STECKT SONST DAHINTER?


Another dead body and a couple of attempted murders later, the good old doc finally starts listening to his wife, who said all along, it could not have been his fault, so no reason to feel guilty about that one anymore... and together they start looking for clues.

EINE WEITERE LEICHE UND ETLICH MORDANSCHLÄGE SPÄTER ERKENNT DER ARZT NUN ENDLICH, DASS ES KEIN KUNSTFEHLER GEWESEN SEIN KANN, ER IST UNSCHULDIG UND ZUSAMMEN MIT SEINER FRAU MACHT ER SICH AUF, UM DIE WAHRHEIT ZU FINDEN...


Having been a very wealthy publisher, the dead man funnily enough had come to a point in his life where he had ceased to hang on to too many material things. Therefore he had sold off all properties and only hung on to the two houses in Port Grimaud and on Marstrand. He has always been a passionate sailor and spend his days either in Scandinavian waters or in the Mediterranian.

Anyway... since there wasn't much left of the yacht down there... doc and his missus (who does have a not quite such peaceful past... - amongst other things she's been on a few of too many black ops... I know what you're thinking, you've never heard of a woman doing that sort of thing... and that is exactly the point! She's pretty much incognito in whatever she does - not much to the delight of her very conservative and rather green husband...!)

But back to the story. So the two of them make it to the island. His residence here should give them a couple of clues as to what exactly happened, what he was involved in and if it really could actually be true that the guy setting of the bomb on the mediterranian yacht had actually been hired and payed by the victim himself?! I mean who would do such an insane thing?! And why?

DIESE FÜHRT SIE ZU DER INSEL MARSTRAND, WO DER VERSTORBENE NOCH EIN HAUS UND EINE WEITERE YACHT HAT. ABER BEVOR MAN ALLE FÄDEN VERBINDEN UND DIE SCHULDIGEN IDENTIFIZIEREN KANN,


Before connecting all the lose ends they are getting company... and a not quite so polite invitaion to the wet and dark cellar of a cabin in the middle of nowhere, deep inside the Swedish forrest...

Neither the week in captivity, nor the following interrogation are a mood-booster, so it ends how it has to end: bad guys get away, good guys end up with a gun pointed to their heads.

But you know now about the little missus' background... and I can promise you, she is indeed not quite as helpless and fragile as she may appear to be...

That's what my stories are usually about: I take a situation which everybody thinks is completely back and hopeless and exploid the unseen. I really get a kick out of that one! It's really interesting to look at areas where nobody exspects any possibilities and come up with a million solutions and alternative ideas!

WERDEN SIE VON ÄUSSERST UNHÖFLICHEM BESUCH ÜBERRASCHT.
EINE WOCHE ÜBLE GEFANGENSCHAFT UND DAS DARAUFFOLGENDE VERHÖR SIND NICHTS, DAS DEN AHNUNGSLOSEN ONKEL DOCTOR UND SEINE FRAU FRÖHLICHER STIMMEN UND ES ENDET WIE ES ENDEN MUSS: DIE HINTERMÄNNER ENTWISCHEN, WÄHREND MAN UNSEREN HELDEN DIE PISTOLE AND DEN KOPF HÄLT...

GLÜCKLICHERWEISE IST DES DOKTORS FRAU NICHT GANZ SO UNBEHOLFEN, WIE SIE SICH IMMER GIBT. IN DER TAT HAT SIE KEINE GAR NICHT SO UNRELEVANTE VERGANGENHEIT UND MEHR ALS NUR EIN WENIG ERFAHRUNG DARIN, WIE MAN SOLCHE SITUATIONEN HANDHABT...


As for the little accident I had there myself... it has nothing at all to do with the story. That sort of thing just happens when you're not awake and aware enough! However it really did handle the orginal problem quite well and I'm not kidding when I say: better than any surgeon could have done! The chipped off piece of the bone got chipped off once more, but broke in several places and it all grew back together quite neately. So this time: No problem at all! It was rather a solution than a problem.

However in general: it doesn't always work out that well and when you have too many messed up fractures it can really end up getting on your nerves! Because at some point you will loose too much of the "connectedness" that a person naturally feels towards his own body- since it never feels quite acceptable to be in it anymore... and that brings along many other different challenges...

WAS DEN KLEINEN UNFALL BETRIFFT, DEN ICH SELBER DA OBEN HATTE... DAS WAR WIRKLICH KEIN PROBLEM, DENN DIE ERNEUTE FRAKTUR HANDHABTE DIE ALTE!
ABER SO WAS FUNKTIONIERT NICHT IMMER SO GUT UND GENERELL KANN ICH SAGEN, WENN MAN ZU VIELE SCHIEFZUSAMMENGEWACHSENE FRAKTUREN HAT, GEHT EINEM DAS IRGENDWANN DANN SCHON AUF DIE NERVEN, WEIL MAN EINFACH DAS NATÜRLICHE KÖRPERGEFÜHL VERLIERT.


Back to the island... This is a view onto the last island...

They have a yearly regatta here... usually attended by Royals and other jet-set-creeps.

ZUR INSEL ZURÜCK: DIESE IST DIE LETZTE INSEL UND SIE HABEN HIER SOGAR EINE JÄHRLICHE REGATTA, DIE AUCH VON KÖNIGLICHEN UND ANDERE JET-SET-SCHLEIMERN BESUCHT WIRD...


In my story the main characters do actually end up back here, just find out that even more challenges and mysteries are awaiting them...

IN MEINER GESCHICHTE KOMMEN DIE HAUPTFIGUREN ZU DIESER INSEL ZURÜCK, NUR UM HERAUSZUFINDEN, DASS NOCH MEHR HERAUSFORDERUNG, VERWICKLUNGEN UND MYSTERIÖSE UMSTÄNDE UND EREIGNISSE AUF SIE WARTEN...


The story takes many more twists and turns... both in terms of the storyline and from a philosophical point of view...


A couple of miles away from all that civalized crap: barren terrain does still excist!

MILEN WEIT WEG VON DEN ZIVILISIERTEN GEHABE: HIER GIBT'S DOCH NOCH RAUHES TERRAN!


And finally serenity does come to mind again...

ENDLICH KANN MAN HIER AUCH WIEDER FRIEDEN FINDEN...


even though from an ecological point of view

OBGLEICH DER ÖKOLOGISCHE GESICHTSPUNKT


there's no reason to be all to cheerful!

IN DIESER HINSICHT NICHT ÜBERZEUGT!


One of the characters has to organize a boat further north, so we check out other bays and the area between Marstand and Norway...

EINE DER FIGUREN MUSS EIN BOOT ORGANISIEREN UND SO FAHREN WIR GEN NORDEN...


Again the coast has been conquered by middle class people with too much money to spend...

So I will just have to dream up some lonely shore... and my mind takes me back to the North Atlantic... Irish westcoast, northern Scotland... anywhere rough and lonely will do where I still have lots of attention and emotion anchored...

DOCH AUCH HIER IST ALLES VON DER MITTELKLASSE BESETZT UND EROBERT... UND SO WERDE ICH MICH EINFACH AN DEN NORD-ATLANTIK TRÄUMEN... IRGEND WO AN DIE WESTKÜSTE IRLANDS ODER NORD-SCHOTTLAND...


How does the story end? I do love happy endings, but you can't have everybody in it.

As the story evolves, there's definitely no shortage of action and it additionally focusses both on the human factor and philosophical ideals. - Afterall some people do have a code of honour they follow and the strength to pull through - in spite of all obsticals!

So of course heros do succeed in more or less every story - mine just do it in a very unusal and completely unexpected way...

WIE DIE GESCHICHTE ENDED? ICH LIEBE HAPPY ENDINGS, DOCH NATÜRLICH KÖNNEN NICHT ALLE DRIN SEIN.

WÄHREND SICH DIE GESCHICHTE ENTWICKELT, IST GANZ BESTIMMT KEIN MANGEL AN ACTTION ZU BEMÄNGELN... DOCH DARÜBERHINAUS STEHT DER MENSCH IM MITTELPUNKT. DER GANZ NORMALE MENSCH, WIE ER ALL SO WAS ERLEBEN WIRD,. MIT ALL SEINEN WAHRNEHMUNGEN, EMOTIONEN UND PHILOSOPHISCHEN ÜBERLEGUNGEN.

SELBSTVERSTÄNDLICH ERREICHEN MEINE HELDEN ETWAS - DAS IST JA SCHLIESSLICH IN FAST ALLEN GECSHICHTEN SO! DOCH WIE SIE ES MACHEN, DAS GESCHIEHT AUF VÖLLIG UNERWARTETE UND SEHR UNGEWÖHNLICHE ART!

ICH HABE DIESEN AWARD VON JENNY ERHALTEN UND WÜRDE IHN GERNE AN ALLE WEITERGEBN, DIE DIESEN BLOG GERNE LESEN.

Last, not least: I have received this award from Jenny
http://jennyeshjey6567.blogspot.com/
some time ago and I just didn't manage to pass it on...
So here it finally is and I would like to pass it on to everybody who enjoys reading this blog.
If you want to have it - it is yours!
Thank you Jenny, for considering me. That was very sweet of you!