Next morning I woke up to the noise from Olga and dishes being put out on the table. I met Minna and was offered some breakfast while chat...

My friend Jari I have known back when we used to work in Bore Lines as deckhands both on Bore Queen. Some years later he worked as 1st Off...

Having seen the troubles in Bangkok I suggested that I will go to Finland to sort out my Indian visa and vacation. The office agreed to it a...

The Mumbai yacht club

S/y Mhadei

Lawrence watch Co

After having gone to our meeting at RINA offices with Mr. Mishra, Mr Devadas and Bob Pinto re: our commercial yacht certification for Kalizm...

As we were stationary and due to move into the docks for the rainseason I planned to go and visit Saini on his vacation in Hariyana during...

Next day I was in Hariyana, a bustling state between Delhi and Punjab. This time very brown and dry as the rains had not yet started but a...

Jantar Mantar After getting our car and driver hired we set the route and out first point of call was Jantar Mantar. It is a compound wit...

As you may have read we have been traveling for most of April and are now relocated from Thailand to India.   Gateway of India

Goddess Durga

1st April we arrived Langkawi and made fast to RLYC. By then I had already got sailing orders for Goa. I was picking up some stuff for the y...

As Sri Lanka is 80% Buddhist as were our driver he took me to visit a temple, Sri Jinaratana Bhikku Abhyasa Vidyalaya. The temple had surp...

We went in the morning to Colombo fish market which was actually quite close to the main port. As soon as I stepped out of the car I could...

15th April early morning we approached Colombo and the day dawned to a yellow cloud of pollution over the capital of Sri Lanka. Reminded m...

So, once again we were back in Phuket and we had stuff to do as usual. Carpenters were called and works started on our foremast to embed the...

As we were again in Langkawi we were asked to join the hash once again to which we replied positively. Friday went working in expecting the ...

On our trip to Langkawi I decided to go via Pulau Perak and check out the waters there. Pulau Perak itself is a small button like Island i...

As some friends were going to do a photo shoot in Kantang I was asked to tag along to see the local spot. Little did I know that I was going...

While in Trang I was given opportunity to come and watch a talent contest at Huai Yod school. These kind of events are very common in Thaila...

2 weeks later the red shirts were wreaking havoc in Bangkok and I prepared to go north to pick up my newly arrived passport. This time I...

Having been driving to Trang a few times I have been seeing signs of the "fossil beach" when I've been passing through Krabi, ...

As my passport was running out of pages despite only 4 years in use I needed to get a new one before the bureaucrats started bitching about ...