What is the difference between to be a traveler or a tourist?
What is the difference between to be a traveler or a tourist? In my youth, our family traveled together to find unknown places, we were seen as a traveling family. We looked in history books to find places of interest. Each town had their information office, with free maps, so you could find the most […]
My first legal trouble in Linden, Georgetown.
In 1964, the 30th of April I signed up at M/s Broland which was in Plymouth Harbor (UK). I left my employment at M/s Trubadur, which was a refrigerated shuttle ship between Europe and the Caribbean. My choice to change ships was mainly because I was told that M/s Broland, which was built in 1956 […]
Why I love the Hospitality business
The Hospitality trade has always been my favorite business for over 50 years. The reason that I love hospitality is that it allows everyone to enjoy quality, created by a multicolor of people divided in females and males. It is hard to find another trade that has this combination. Also, a way of living, where […]
People saying, Business first! But in my case, it’s Family first! My Grandson celebrates his 30th birthday today!
Today, the 14th of September 2022 my Grandson, Daniel Bergsten celebrates his 30 years birthday! In 1992, Daniel was born in Almayate, a small suburban to Vélez Málaga here in southern Spain. This is where my daughter Christina Bergsten mother to Daniel, have been living since. Christina was actually born in Australia 1969. But now […]
Emigrating to Australia.
When you emigrate, you leave the known – and become an immigrant in the unknown. When I was young (15year), I got my first job as a sailor. Later, on my return to sweden I signed in at a Hospitality school Hasselbacken in Stockholm. It was a 2-year education program with work practice and study, […]
I am back again to find some good winds, sailing to Manila, from Australia.
When we left Australia behind us, i already felt like going back again to the lovely and friendly people who made me feel at home….This journey, that just begun, was going to take us close to Papua New Guineas coast with many islands surrounding with astonishing form’s . Our next port to enter will be, […]
Do not be afraid to make mistakes.
”As a sailor I learned to know many counties with different cultures and political systems. The year 1965, in the port of Valparaiso I had my first confrontation with an authority. It all started with a horrible experience! I was jailed by the Carabineers (Chilean military police), under charge of the Senator Allende. This happened […]
The year 1963 was marked by devastation in the Caribbean due to a hurricane and a virus outbreak.
Sailing to Caribbean 1963. I had signed on at M/s Trubadur in the port of Gothenburg in September 1963. This was my first time that I left home, at the age of 15. It was going to be a big change in my life, from farm working to become a sailor in the merchant navy. […]
2020, Covid 19 a new Time Zone
The world will enter in a new “Time Zone”, after Covid 19. We will find that the so called economic “Globalization”, did not have its way as planned. Free world trade with products and currencies will never be the same again. The growing economy in the Asian countries, like China and India has been overvalued. […]
My Time Zone in Buenos Aires.
Arriving to Buenos Aries. We had been in Mendoza, Argentina, for a few days and now another long trip on train was ahead of us. We were going to the capital Buenos Aires, more than 1000km away. The train left early morning on a nice and sunny day and the train porter told us that […]