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The Road To Mandalay
Rudyard Kipling made The Road to Mandalay famous in his invocative poem, popularised by Frank Sinatra’s version and Robbie Williams catchy, but – other than the title – unrelated song. …
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Burmese Days
Our initial impression flying into Yangon wasn’t great. It was a hot and sweaty grind through heavy traffic to our hotel in bustling Chinatown. The power was out and the…
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Tall Tales!
We had to leave the country! We both have six month tourist visas for Thailand, but one of the curious conditions is that they’re only valid for a sixty day…
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Dining In In Isolation
We are set for release this afternoon! It’s funny thinking that our 14 days in NZ Managed Isolation is about the same time it took us to sail from Dubai…
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But What Do You Eat?
Curiosity about what we would eat was high on most people’s list of questions about how we would survive while offshore. Understandable given we live most of our lives in…
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Eating and Drinking Island Style
The coconuts are plentiful around here and obviously there are not many people to take them. This place used to be a copra plantation after all. Earlier generations of yachties…
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Champagne Celebration
Over the last decade or so, my family have developed a habit of meeting up in some interesting places around the world. Happily, one of these places a few years…
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Sri Lanka – Touch and Go
After four days and four nights sailing (not quite biblical…), we arrived in Galle in the wee small hours. It was a busy night playing chicken with the big (and…
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