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Detailed travelogue on visiting the remotest inhabited islands in the world (Tristan da Cunha and St Helena), also South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia. Very interested read, and indexed.
Remotest Islands in the World St Helena, Tristan da Cunha + S. Africa, Malaysia, mor
Larry2006-05-27 03:20:07
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mind dropping by to do a show with him (I
gladly accepted, as seeing the island's one radio station was something I
had very much hoped to do).
Out in the back I met Peter, a South African journalist who writes movie
reviews for one of the local Cape Town papers as well as travel articles for
the South African AMEX travel magazine (among others). It wasn't long
before we were into a great conversation about travel, life, and some of the
places we've visited, though as I returned with a bit of lunch from the
upstairs sun lounge, Peter began to feel quite sea-sick, even though the
water was smooth and calm.
All of a sudden, steam with black soot shot out of the funnel, and a few
moments later we heard an announcement that there was engine trouble: the
bearing in the turbo blower was busted, and we'd be returning to the water
off Robben Island to try to make repairs. "Uh-oh," I thought, "not again!"
The ship breaking down last year was the reason I had to wait a year to get
to these islands, and it looked as if there'd be trouble ahead. I was later
told by some of the crew that no one was happy with the engines used on the
ship -- but because its funding came from the British Government, certain
requirements had to be met (such as having a certain percentage of the ship
manufactured in the UK)... while the crew all wanted Japanese engines, they
were instead given ones that have since proved to be nothing but trouble.
After turning around for the water off Robben Island, a new announcement
was made that we'd slowly be heading back to J Berth at the Cape Town docks
and would go back to port. Sitting down inside to talk with some Brits and
South Africans at afternoon tea (we would later become the "Table 16"
group), I joked that I was the one jinxing the ship, as I was scheduled to
take last year's
...
See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
