Triora

Whilst venturing up the valley we stopped in the witch museum of Triora. 

The stream down the Ligurian mountains

Pieve di Teco

This day I went for a Sunday outing to Pieve di Teco in the hopes of seeing the antique market.  We drove there at first via the coast through Imperia and up the valley. 

Local bridge

Glori

Went for a walk in the village of Glori, this time the weather was a bit uncertain so didn't walk over the mountain. 

Local orchid

Cartagena

Cartagena center onwards

Vacation in Philippines p2

 As we had returned from Malaysia the traffic and people got really heave so were kind of confined to Calatagan and only scootered around to beaches etc.

Calatagan market lighting

Trip to Malaysia

As I was in Philippines for a short time I decided to go visit my Malaysian friends in Lumut area. 

911 MB, not Porsche ;)

Vacation in Philippines p1

Helsinki-Vantaa airport, getting out just in time

Vacation in Finland

Last look down the valley before heading to Nice and my flight to Finland

M/t Tobias - the greatest tanker in the world

Many times in the beginning of my career the old hands talked about the American (“Yankee-tank”) supertanker “Tobias”, the world’s largest tanker. It was carrying elephant-snot from India…

M/t Tobias

Seafaring culture

Delivery Djibouti to Cyprus

Planned voyage Djibouti to Turkey, possibly Bodrum

Ever Given

Probably the most known picture about Ever Given that broke into the media

(Courtesy of GCaptain)

Suez shipspotting

m/v Sister 12

Fanny revisited

21.03.2022 - 07.07.2022

Captain

s/y Fanny

Fanny in Marina degli Aregai

Lilibet

20.11.2022 - 16.05.2023
Captain
fpv Lilibet

Singapore roads, taking bunkers, photo by Capt Thye Hock

Adventurer ANNY VON HAMBURG

ANNY VON HAMBURG under full sail off Miami, Florida. 

© Photo: Bent Weber, BU: Peer Schmidt-Walther, photo: 1983

Across two Oceans in the Fennia

Fennia crew at the helm (photo by Charles Howlett)

Sail training ship Fennia

Poster of shipwrecks around Falklands

Falklands Islands

Spectacular sunsets on Southern Atlantic

South Atlantic sojourn

As we had left Tristan da Cunha we set course for South Georgia with an aim to go do some PR for the locals there as well as to see the grave of Ernest Shackleton. 

Some humour along the trip was required, orginal Asterix album cover modified

Lawhill in the news

Lawhill (courtesy of Clydeships)

Lawhill chronology

Lawhill colorized with the Finnish flag (courtesy of Erick Navas)

Captain Arthur A Soderlund

As I was visiting Tristan da Cunha a colleague of mine had told me there is a Finn buried over there. Before the port was the local cemetery so I requested our hosts to stop there to have a quick look.

The Söderlund family (courtesy of Pix in 1945) 

Tristan da Cunha

Having left Cape Town we planned to go East until we reached Tristan da Cunha before turning on a southerly heading in order to avoid the low pressures feeding up from Cape Horn and Pacific ocean. 

Tristan da Cunha, coat of arms