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Sunday 20 th June Day 15: I wake with anticipation, but also with some stress. Will my wife and four year old make it on time, or will I spend the day at the airport trying to figure out where they are? Their flight goes from Cape Town to Joburg then on to Madrid, where there is a four hour wait before catching their connection to Tenerife. That's a lot of flying. Waking at 8.00 AM, I still don't leave the apartment before 9.00 and even though I [View Full Entry]

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Thursday 18th Day 12: Breakfast is overlooking the Las Palmas beach front, and what a wonderful sight. White beaches, palm trees and the winding promenade accompanying the natural sweep of the beach, plus lots of people in swimwear abound, but there isn’t time for too much sight seeing here because I need to get to Tenerife as quickly as possible, and this is why I’m taking the Fred Olsen jet-foil ferry, which makes the 4 hour cros [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday 17th Day 11: Today I did breakfast but it didn’t matter because even though we could see Las Palmas from 9.00 AM in the morning they kept us waiting for a pilot until nearly 10.00 PM, by which time I’d gone all around the ship taking what photos I thought I may have missed but probably didn’t. Although I am not in a hurry to get off the ship, but after 11 days at sea I’m also looking forward to being ashore, [View Full Entry]

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Talking about dolphins, and other marine life, yesterdays post closed out early because I took an available opportunity to get email sent from the Chief Officer’s cabin this time. I think it helped that a shot a cool still sequence of the Second Officer’s wife, Sonya, so I got to use the system early. The Fuji 6.02 still cam is impressive and I’ve been getting cool shots. Besides this, we were 8 miles off Dakar earlier and I was told that you can get cellphone reception for 20 minutes so I got the chance [View Full Entry]

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Title: Travelblog from Schwann-at-sea - Chapter 5 - Days Wednesday 10th Day 4: Just another peaceful day. No transits, just some trance. Getting to know the ship, the crew, and my fellow passengers. Got a good connection with Willy, the 2nd engineer, who says he’ll try and get this journal out via email tomorrow, so I’ve been preparing a movie to amaze and astound. Eat this blog from deep Atlantic, a.r.k.! Thursday 11th Day 5 [View Full Entry]

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Sunday, June 6 th 2004 It wasn't easy cramming my studio into a suitcase so it took me nearly two months and without the help of Daene, I would probably have missed the boat but I was nearly ready by the time the Safmarine driver arrived at 10.00 AM on Sunday. This was not to be the only time on Sunday I was to be grateful not to be traveling by air, but more on that later. The ship is berthed at Milnerton container terminal and boarding is no problem, until I discover that my wife hadn't packed my B [View Full Entry]

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So it's 2.05AM Sunday 30th May 2004 and there's now less than a week to go. Surrounded by every increasing piles of discarded cardboard and plastic I stumble towards departure with an ever decreasing sense of reality. I remember once writing somewhere; "it never get's weird enough for me". I guess the words themselves don't mean much, it's what they're hotwired to, things words can't do by themselves, but it feels like I'm arriving at some kind of cut-off point, a point where it all comes down to throwing onself at the mercy of the elements, and trusting those that, one [View Full Entry]

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Subject: Blog: Once in a lifetime? Chapter 1 From: _Schwann_ Even before 9/11 I started hating air travel but my old-school friend Roy, who now lives in London, but owns hotels in Spain, has lured me North to Spain for the summer with offers of a Villa with a Mercedes convertible and a 30ft twin V-8 power boat to play with, when I'm not hanging out on the Piazza surrounded by beautiful sweating girls in white lycra. Talking Heads sing; "Same as it ever was". Can't get it out of my mind as the date for my departure by ship to [View Full Entry]

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