Archive for June, 2010

Pirate situation

There was are recent pirate attack on a yacht that left the Seychelles this week, read about it here
That does not help when I am thinking about which route to follow to cross the Indian Ocean (or maybe it does help: do not get near the Seychelles).

Better copy of the article

Click on the picture below for the full size article. I will post my footnotes later this week.

And a reference to the Solomon Islands theft.

Newspaper article.

Last Monday I was asked if I would be willing to talk a journalist from a regional newspaper. Spent about 2 1/2 hours talking to this guy which resulted in this article:

Greenwich Meridian

Where would we be without this?  Well, exactly where we are since it is just a reference, but handy to be somewhere…..http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8266883.stm

Keeping you updated

Well, so I have not been good at updating the blog, but from a few emails I received I distilled that it is not clear what the status of my stay is.  
So, here we go: all boat parts that I had ordered previously were picked up during the trip to Labuan.  The new toilet […]