Day 7 - Monday, April 7 2008 It’s now a week since we boarded the Tosca and there’s still a sense of unreality to the whole affair. What began late last year as an interesting possibility gradually took shape, but there was always a mental question-mark about actually making it happen. We knew that some cargo ships carried passengers, but how many, where to, and how to arrange it? Mr Google quickly provided the answer to that, with reams of sites offering various degrees of usefulness. Among the most promising was one with the highly original name of ‘Freighter Travel’, based in New Zealand (of all unlikely places), citing Hamish Jamieson as the very man to sort you out. With a name like that, my Scottish bias came to the fore, and so began tentative enquiries.
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