The Baltic and Scandinavia behind us, onward across the North Sea towards the English Channel or La Manche as I like to say and then into familiar waters the Irish Sea.Unfortunately for me we will be heading for the non-Irish side, Cardiff Wales a regular port for me this past year 3 times this time, there will be a street named after me soon. The North Sea is a great place for gray skies and big seagulls who like to shit on our newly painted decks, I suppose there is enough shit in the water already. The North Sea is somewhere you pass by unless you have the exciting job of guard vessel minding the rigs, they probably think the same when they see us go by, poor bastards in tankers, glad I’m stuck here doing sweet f. nothing at all, or something like that.
Nearly half way through the trip now and the speed of time has entered a warp which means that all days are longer, nights are even longer and it feels like you have never been anywhere else all other existence is only a distant memory. To help matters we are in the North Sea gray as cold porridge.
Soon time for a new book, Ben Eltons, Past Mortem is getting to the exciting and predictable end but a good read.
After Cardiff we are heading up to Stanlow on the Manchester Ship Canal, so we go around the Welsh coast and into the River Mersey passing Liverpool on the way in.
More news soon, Cheers Tim
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