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 […]
Tahsis, Vancouver Island, the “loneliest” place in the world 1964.
Tahsis church, in Vancouver Island. Tahsis, Vancouver Island, the “loneliest” place in the world 1964 “Fifteen hundred to two thousand years ago, native villages developed all along the Tahsis Inlet due to population increase on Nootka Island, where “Yuquot” (in “Friendly Cove”, as Cook called it), has a more than four-thousand-year history. At the head […]
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 […]
Do not worry, the weather was not so bad in 2022.
******************************** Another year to remember was 1969, at the time I was living in Australia. A heatwave around 45 degrees C in Sydney, with small birds falling dead from the sky! At the same time in Europe’s winter the port of Bremerhaven was frozen for the first time in over 100 years. Climate changes has […]
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 […]
A new #Timezone 1965, Australia
Arriving at Brisbane, Australia. When we finally sight the shore of the Australian coastline, it was a relief to know that our adventure in the southern Pacific Ocean had come to an end and that all of us on board were well. This was the first time for me to visit the Australian continent and […]
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. […]
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 […]
Traveling by train across the “Los Andes” in 1965.
My Time Zone, at high attitude! After signing of my duties at M/s Broland with 2 of my mates, after 26 months of working without any days off, we put our feet’s at the Chile soil in the port of Valparaiso. It all started with a horrible experience! We were jailed by the Carabineers (Chilean […]