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Ping Bruce in Bangkok
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:38:10 +1000, Herodotus
wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:16:21 +0700, wrote: One way to get your wife to come along is co call from where ever the boat is and say something like, "Honey, I've been looking for a crew all over and the only one I can find is this 30 year old Dutch girl......" A mate of mine did that and I swear his Missus must have ridden her broom to have gotten to Phuket as fast as she did. It's not a case of her not wanting to come. She does as I have been fortunate enough to have a wife who loves the sea. It's just that our son needs to attend High School and therefore she has to remain in Sydney for a while. Have you ever read D.H. Lawrence? In "The Sea and Sardinia" (I think that is the title), one of his books about his travels through Italy with his wife Frieda von Richthofen, he constantly refers to her as "she", never by name. As an aside (my mind wanders off very easily), whilst at Taormina in Sicily he wrote one of my favorite poems "The Snake". It is very beautiful. Nope, the only Lawrence I read was the guy running about in Arabia during the first World War and I don;' think that he had a wife. As to final landfall, not sure but have been invited to stop and stay at Haiphong, Vietnam as a guest of Customs. I may however end in Sydney and later sail through Indonesia again to Malaysia. Still deciding. cheers Peter You are in the Caribbean and headed for Vietnam? That is kind of the long way round isn't it? Or are you going east? Yes, a faster trip would possibly be down the South Atlantic to Cape Town and either across to Australia or up to South East Asia but I'd like to do the Pacific. I have friends who sailed through the Beagle Channel with a quick trip to Cape Horn Island. It is so very tempting to do this and then head up to say, Easter Island and French Polynesia from Chile, but it would be nicer with a companion. They said that Argentina and Chile are great places to sail through. As there are few foreign boats and no "water Winnebagos" the yacht clubs are inviting and generally charge no fees which seems a positive sign of their hospitality. But, as I said, I prefer to have a companion to share the experiences with. I can handle the being alone bit as there are lonelier situations within a crowded city or amongst a group of people. It is also nice to be able to get longer sleep periods when one does not have to worry about other vessels. Things are still fluid at the moment. cheers Peter Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom) Being of British heritage - New Zealand was conquered by the British you know -- you should follow custom and put the boy in a good boarding school, a proper education you know. On a less frivolous aside I have some friends (from N.Z. also) that actually did place their son in a boarding school after having decided that the curriculum and teaching quality were vastly superior to that in public school. However, as a good Moslem you are allowed four wives. Of course, If I remember correctly, you must treat each wife equally so if you built another boat...... Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom) |
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