What was Machu Picchu like 60 years ago?
The following story about Machu Picchu, are from one of my many travels as a youngster, #curtbergsten. Our ship M/s Broland would visit smaller ports in the year1964, one of them, San Juan de Marcona which was south of Lima/Callao. This was also the closest city on the coast to Cuzco, the city you pass […]
The horizon and its mysticism
The answer lies behind the sea line. Have you ever been on the open sea, without seeing land in any direction. Then you know the mystery of the horizon’s meaning. Where the contrast between sky and sea that forms a clear line with an infinite spherical shape but at the same time is only a […]
Is our planet Earth preparing a new era?
What´s happening on earth? Is our planet Earth preparing a new era? In a few earlier articles I have mentioned that our Earth is undergoing a change of the magnetic poles geographic position. This has also been confirmed by NASA. In my youth I was working as sailor on merchant ships and used to see […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]