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Archive for April, 2009

23 Apr

A very soggy entrance to Nova Scotia!

AAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!
Driving BLIND!!!
I was woken from a pleasant sleep in the suprisingly comfortable dorm bunk bed on the Ferry, Caribou, by the impression an announcement had been made. I looked at my watch and saw it was 6.15am and figured we had to be getting close to Nova Scotia now. It hadn’t been at all rough [...]

22 Apr

Escaping The Rock (leaivng Newfoundland)

A bit late… I know. But I wrote up my adventures as I was travelling across from the East Coast to the West Coast of the 2nd largest country in the world Canada – and then didn’t post them very promptly… So here is my journal as I drove across Canada.
Today, I escaped the rock
I [...]

18 Apr

A puzzling walk around Ponta del Gada, Sao Miguel Is, Azores

Up and at ‘em! Bright and early! Boot them passengers off the ship!
By 8.30am, everyone was gone and it was just staff left milling around on the dock. The dock. It was a miserable dock.The sky was overcast and grey and occasionally spat on us. The harbour at Ponta del Gada on Sao Miguel Island [...]

18 Apr

Under and over Pico, Azores

It had been decided the day before that we’d come in alongside at Sao Roque do Pico on the north side of the island as strong, gusty winds were forecast for the south side – and Lajes was a little exposed! I gather we had to zodiac the passengers in there and given the problems [...]

17 Apr

Capelhinos and Horta, Faial Island, Azores

It was a bleak morning in Faial – grey, windy, damp… Low cloud obscured the upper reaches of Horta, the town we had docked in, which from the ship appeared to be a long town punctuated with tall churches here and there – lots of tall churches!
However, a touring we must go so by 9am [...]

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