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Lessons Learnt
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Will update as and when I get time and learn the hard way. The * items are things I have not yet learnt that’s just opinions, which may be wrong. Stock up where it’s cheap. Portugal lidl is the cheapest for everything before the Canaries, everything except wine! Buy lots of tins from the UK especially M&S, bring spices with you, will be hard to find unless you go to Morocco. Fans – lots of them, buy twice as many as you will need, it gets HOT. I don’t have a fridge and I really really miss one. Buy a met...
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Canaries
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Prior to departure visit the JobCentre! Lesson number one when going traveling: Sign up to the dole! No I don’t mean be a nonce and stroke the gland of social nectar till the tax payers cries in anguish at the injustice. Simply sign up this will mean they pay the stamp duty, you don’t get any cash / moneys but it contributes towards your NI contributions required for your state pension (heck every little counts). If you do scam the system then I hope you sink. Arrive in London on the 24th of October.
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A month in Gomera – now time for Gambia – or ..
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A month in Gomera – now time for Gambia – or . Puddles everywhere, wet ones too, persistent rain with undertones of dull and gloom are certainly not words to describe Gomera. It’s a very spiritual place with many people coming out to try and find if their inner self will resonate with the quartz left over from when Atlantis descended into the depths…. or something like that. I didn’t see anyone vibrate but people here are happy and it rubs off. Deutsche Germans – everywhere! I meet up again with Nes-Puk.
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London the home of a thousand glances, yet few smiles
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London the home of a thousand glances, yet few smiles. Coming out of Liverpool street station wearing flipflops summer slacks and a brightly coloured hoody I was greeted by the evening stampede of commuters whose eyes rarely deviated from the floor, some so intent on their phones no doubt twittering their intentions to their unbeknown neighbour – that it was a miracle how spaces were not violated. Like a large thriving mass it feeds on decadence and paranoia, the novelty has worn thin, my enthusiasm waned.
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Sailing
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One dream, one ripped sail, three near collisions, one faulty engine, zero dry clothes, prevailing winds and sea, ten days, the final chapter. Why did it end … I went back to London to undertake a contract position which led to a job, there was however one remaining hurdle, getting my boat back to Europe. In his fashion he met me from the ferry with a flute, bohohemian raphsody will never sound the same. Maria was floating and it took little time getting her ready to sail to colder climates. As the sun s...
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La Gomera – I found Heaven
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La Gomera – I found Heaven. I would rate this place as AAA, and yes the A stands for awesome! This was sailing at it’s best and I could have gone on comfortably for days, except for the problem with leaking windows, the engine was useless in these conditions, I couldn’t make more than 1knt with the engine flat out. There are no tourists, except for the day trippers who obediently roll off and on the ferries, the smarter ones driving cars so they can visit La Cedra – the home of Jurrasic park. One dream, ...
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Orphans & Asses
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Orphans & Asses. Curious case of Benjamin button today as walking back from the bakers I serenaded into a Orphanage. Surrounded by ex-pats come born again philanthrophists who never had their moment on the stage as the beauty pagent revealing which ailments they would cure the world of. Forgotten by their sired generation, they be dead, and remembered from afar by their own children they cast their doting affection on those nearer to home. Was a bountiful xmas. Ps They were all lovely! Reputations are ha...
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History
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So far I have loved every minute of it, and I am looking forward to what’s still to come. My favourite moment so far was a detour as a result of the coast guard http:/ therebepirates.com/2010/10/21/yarrrgh-we-be-boarded-by-the-police/. 8230; there is so much I have grounded my boat, been detained by the police and well read it for yourself …. Dutch Contessa 32 Sailor. Peter Solo Sailor on a steel 26'. Shelley Dutch solo sailor on a 29'. Swedish Couple on Ingeborg.
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Going to London :: Gomeran’s don’t miss the Kings of Originality Zirkmir on 12th
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Going to London : Gomeran’s don’t miss the Kings of Originality Zirkmir on 12th. Zirkmir in Action in San Sabastian on the 12th of October. Need to earn some coinage, pirates mutiny when their is no gold, actually I have run out of instant noodles. Arrive in London on the 24th of October. One thing I am staying for is www.zirkmir.com. Performance, they are five fantastic and a little loopy Norse people bringing smiles to the world. Take a look at their website! Subscribe to our RSS Feed. Your writing sty...
