Voyage from Brazil to Australia.
The dangerous journey from Brazil to Australia. We had recently unloaded a cargo shipment from Japan, in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest port city when we were told to go to Sao Francisco do Sur for loading. It was a small port town then, in 1965, but now an important resort in the Catarina district located […]
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 […]
My Time Zone, in a secret cave.
In the port of Guayaquil, Ecuador, I was told by a young lad that he knew a secret place. As this young kid, 10-11 years old, was so exited about his secret my first thought was that he only tried to receive some money for this information. When he told me that he will take […]
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 […]
Japan, has Quality thinking people ….
Quality Thinking Living. One time in Osaka, Japan, I did experienced how easy it was to adopt Quality Thinking in daily living. I was invited to stay for one month in a house of a Japanese family. Atsuo-san, the head of the family was the owner of 4 exclusive night-clubs. At home all family members […]
From the eye of a hurricane
# I was not comfortable in my TIME ZONE !! FROM THE EYE OF A HURRICANE. It happened in the year 1964, when I had one of my most terrifying experiences in my lifetime. I was working on M/S Broland a Swedish bulk cargo vessel with the size of 18.000 Dwt. We were crossing the […]
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