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Sailing my life away, part 24

28th September 2021 Ancient Mariner 2891 Comments

I’m glad my account of Sweden and Norway in earlier articles revived memories for several readers who had been there themselves or, like Arthur Dent, had met Scandinavians in Britain.     It is quite [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 23

14th September 2021 Ancient Mariner 3138 Comments

Here is a Cabin Announcement. Please fasten your seatbelts, our Time Machine is about to land at Stavanger, Norway in Late July 1997. I have again made extensive use of my journal when preparing this [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 22

31st August 2021 Ancient Mariner 3218 Comments

COMMENTS ON PART 21 AND YARNS ENSUING FROM THEM I really enjoyed the comments on part 21 and it seems invidious to single out just a few. However, I must apologise to both Wattylers wife [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 21

17th August 2021 Ancient Mariner 3563 Comments

INTRODUCTORY In these days, when the world in which we used to live is disintegrating at lightning speed, many are seeking to escape in one way or another, as Mrs Raft once pointed out. I [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 20

3rd August 2021 Ancient Mariner 2919 Comments

COMMENTS I visited Cambridge and Ely at the start of my summer break.  Here are a couple of pics taken there. I drafted parts 18,19 and 20 of these tales before leaving home to get [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 19

20th July 2021 Ancient Mariner 3086 Comments

RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON PART 17 There were some great comments on Part 17 so thanks to every-one for that. There are two in particular and one question I’d  like to pick out and reproduce. I [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 18

6th July 2021 Ancient Mariner 3096 Comments

A SUMMER BREAK I am now away from home for about six weeks and have suspended for this issue a continuation of the story of Alchemi’s 1997 Voyage covering the leg from Oslo to Bergen. [more…]

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Sailing my life away, Part 17

22nd June 2021 Ancient Mariner 3763 Comments

PIRACY – 1 I have promised to write something about piracy in the form of shortish mini-essays embedded within articles about my sailing life.   Here’s my first effort. The word piracy and its associated [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 16

8th June 2021 Ancient Mariner 2955 Comments

REFLECTIONS ON PIRACY I appreciated the warm reception given to Part 15 from several people and thank them all for reading and commenting on it.   I especially wish good fortune and happy sailing to [more…]

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